A law firm that replaced lockstep promotions with a system based on competency has seen the percentage of women lawyers leaving the firm drop below that of men.
Median pay for 2007 law grads who went into private practice has surpassed the $100,000 mark, but salaries for their counterparts in other legal jobs still pale in comparison.
A career expert has some advice for law firms running summer associate programs: Spend less money on late-night parties and more on training and mentoring programs.
Ropes & Gray has hired its first e-discovery counsel, making it one of a handful of law firms that have a lawyer on board who focuses exclusively on the issue.
A partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe endorses part-time work options at law firms, but she says it isn’t nearly enough to satisfy the new generation of lawyers.
An antitrust lawyer for Arnold & Porter who was attacked by a man as she was jogging in a Washington, D.C., park in 2001 fought off her attacker and helped…
A new study being released tomorrow says simple strategies can help law firms help close the gap between the number of women and men who are advancing into partnership ranks.
About 60 women lawyers and summer associates from Greenberg Traurig gathered at the Manhattan home of partner Judith O’Neill last night for a chocolate-tasting billed as a networking opportunity.
A longtime Loyola University New Orleans School of Law professor who is credited with making Louisiana women equal partners in their marriages died Saturday. Janet Mary Riley was 92.
A “Hot Attorney” website that featured photos and biographical information about attractive young women attorneys at major law firms has been taken down, after it caught the attention of the…
At the heart of an age and sex discrimination case against Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is a onetime litigation counsel’s liberal use of a common law firm perk:…
Striking back at a former partner who last month filed a defamation claim over a law firm press release that he had been fired for “extremely inappropriate personal conduct,” Kasowitz…
A would-be partner’s suit against one of Canada’s top-tier law firms doesn’t just claim that McCarthy Tetrault discriminated against her because of her gender. It contends that…