In any article addressing the state of women in the legal profession, the hard facts speak volumes. Despite law firms’ increased attention to advancing women attorneys, the number of female equity partners industrywide has remained flat over the last decade. More women are graduating from law school and entering the field than ever before, but they are under-represented among the legal elite.
However, the number of Big Law female partners isn’t the only metric by which to measure success. Rather, any conversation about women in law should give equal consideration to developing high-quality candidates for partnership, as well as for in-house and other roles. In the high-mobility Big Law world, measuring the number of female partners yields an unrealistic, overly pessimistic view of the contributions of women in the profession.
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