Women in the Law

Latham may be the first BigLaw firm to offer this benefit to traveling moms

Latham & Watkins has embraced a new trend in employee benefits: It is helping its new moms who travel by shipping their breast milk home. Latham believes it is the first law firm to offer such a benefit, report Fortune and Law.com. The articles explain how the program works. Latham…

Sep 20, 2016 7:00 AM CDT

Did Hillary Clinton fudge a detail in her LSAT recollection?

Some critics are raising questions about Hillary Clinton’s recollection of a negative experience before she took the Law School Admission Test. Clinton wrote at the Humans of New York blog that she was one of only a few women waiting to take the test when men in the exam room…

Sep 19, 2016 10:18 AM CDT

Davis Polk announces recruiting effort aimed at women who left the firm to raise children

As an attempt to increase diversity, Davis Polk & Wardwell recently started a program that recruits women who left the firm to raise their children. The offering, which the firm calls “Davis Polk Revisited,” targets lawyers who practiced there for at least three years, and have been gone for two…

Sep 15, 2016 10:30 AM CDT

Don’t speak for us, women Chadbourne partners tell lawyer behind sex discrimination case

Some women partners at Chadbourne & Parke say that they want no part of a recent sex discrimination lawsuit seeking class-action status against the firm. The letter was sent Monday to David W. Sanford, the plaintiffs lawyer who filed the case, the Wall Street Journal Law Blog reports. Kerrie Campbell,…

Sep 13, 2016 12:49 PM CDT

Lawyer hopes to be the best fighter outside of court

Aleksandra Magdziak Lopes, a Massachusetts lawyer, says she likes to fight—literally—and it’s nothing like litigation. Besides her practice doing workers’ compensation work, she’s training for the World Boxing Council World female super welterweight title, which she hopes to win in her native Poland, the Boston Herald reports. “The law ……

Sep 12, 2016 5:32 PM CDT

Hillary Clinton explains how a bad LSAT experience taught her to keep her emotions in check

Hillary Clinton says she learned a lesson about keeping her emotions in check when she took the Law School Admission Test. Clinton tells the Humans of New York blog that she was one of only a few women waiting to take the test in the Harvard classroom. “I was feeling…

Sep 12, 2016 8:15 AM CDT

ABA President Linda Klein visits with lawyers around the country to chart policy initiatives

New ABA President Linda Klein is using what she learned in visits with lawyers around the country to chart her policy initiatives for the coming year

Sep 1, 2016 1:30 AM CDT

Partner files $100M class action against Chadbourne, targets pay decisions of male ‘dictatorship’

A partner has filed a $100 million class action alleging Chadbourne & Parke has “a culture of discrimination against female attorneys” that was perpetuated by an “all-male dictatorship.” The suit (PDF) by Kerrie Campbell seeks damages for female partners “who have been disparately underpaid, systematically shut out of firm leadership,…

Aug 31, 2016 4:07 PM CDT

4th Circuit revives lawyer’s ‘glass ceiling’ suit against Booz Allen

A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit by a former in-house lawyer at Booz Allen Hamilton who alleged the consulting firm had a pattern of discriminating against older women. The Richmond, Virginia-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday in the suit filed by Carla Calobrisi, the National…

Aug 23, 2016 2:40 PM CDT

Create more opportunities for demographically diverse attorneys, House of Delegates urges

A resolution urging legal services providers—large law firms, in-house legal departments and others—to expand opportunities for attorneys of all backgrounds met with strong approval in the ABA’s House of Delegates Monday afternoon. On a day when several measures on diversity and inclusion in the legal profession met with support in…

Aug 8, 2016 5:25 PM CDT

5 Margaret Brent honorees helped level the playing field for women lawyers

One of a few themes that threaded through acceptance speeches by the five award recipients at the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award luncheon at the ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco concerned men, albeit small numbers of them, who worked to help women lawyers succeed. When—not so long…

Aug 7, 2016 7:50 PM CDT

Think only younger women are leaving BigLaw? The exodus is long-term

Women are leaving BigLaw more than men, and the exodus is not confined to women in their childbearing years. Those findings are contained in research by ALM Intelligence that found there is no specific time in women’s lives when they are most likely to leave large law firms. Rather the…

Aug 1, 2016 8:30 AM CDT

10 Questions: Kristen Clarke is a leader in 21st century fight for civil rights

Click here to register for 10 Questions Live, a Google Hangout with civil rights warrior Kristen Clarke, today at 2 p.m. ET.

Aug 1, 2016 3:20 AM CDT

ABA President Paulette Brown addresses breaking events while maintaining focus on key initiatives

Outgoing President Paulette Brown has addressed breaking events while maintaining her focus on key initiatives.

Aug 1, 2016 1:20 AM CDT

Partner’s equal-pay suit claims Sedgwick has a ‘male-dominated culture’ that hinders women

A nonequity partner at Sedgwick has filed a suit on behalf of women at the firm that contends they are denied equal pay and equal opportunities for advancement because of a “male-dominated culture” at the firm. Traci Ribeiro, who works in the firm’s Chicago office, filed the would-be class action…

Jul 28, 2016 9:40 AM CDT