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We are joined today by Deborah Epstein Henry, founder and president of Flex-Time Lawyers LLC , a national networking and consulting firm advising law students, lawyers, and legal employers on work/life balance and the retention and promotion of women...
Last year, in just about every law firm interview, I heard about women’s initiatives, generous maternity leave policies, flexible telecommuting alternatives, and part-time options. Almost without fail, the interviewer vaunted the brand new flex...
Today we are joined by guest blogger Professor Eli Wald. Professor Wald is Associate Professor at University of Denver Sturm College of Law. His academic interests include the American legal profession, legal ethics and corporate law. His recent research...
The Project for Attorney Retention (PAR) released its yearly report on the percentage of women in law firms’ 2009 partner classes, and the news is pretty grim. 14 firms did not make a single woman partner (Cadwalader, Cleary Gottlieb, Dechert, Foley...
The NYT has a fascinating chart today called Why is Her Paycheck Smaller? It charts median weekly pay for women against that of men for dozens of professions and color-coded by type of industry. An especially salient statistic: female lawyers make, on...
We are joined by student guest blogger Alex Crohn. Alex is a member of the Harvard Law School class of 2009. --- I was once told that the reason gay men and women have thrived so much in finance is because banks realized that gays were less likely to...
Women have made up 40% or more of law school students since 1985, but in 1996, only 14.2% of partners at law firms were women, and the number rose to only 17.2% in 2005. And the percentage of women equity partners is even lower; firms include non-equity...
In the coming weeks we will be inviting several students to write posts from their own experiences or about things in the news. The post below is written by Josh Lee, a member of the Yale Law School Class of 2009 and a married father of two. Josh started...
We can only discuss the problem, share stories, kvetch or despair privately, and negotiate compromises in our jobs, personal relationships, and other interests for so long before we realize that something larger must be done to address the institutional...