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A recent Financial Times piece highlighting the continued failure of large law firms to create sustainable paths to leadership for women has us shaking our heads. We have been following this issue for a long (long!) time, and it's frustrating to hear up-and-coming lawyers complaining about the same grueling working conditions and outdated performance metrics that foreclosed opportunities for lawyers from their mothers'...

A 2022 Leopard Solutions report shows — unsurprisingly — that women lawyers continue to leave Big Law for in-house jobs or positions with smaller firms. The reasons why are familiar: Essentially, the pressure at the largest firms to maximize billable hours incentivizes a type of work (crisis focused) and approach to work (reactive instead of proactive) that lead to unpredictable schedules and unsustainable demands. Firms that have failed to address...

As the holiday giving season approaches, firms face decisions about the best way to give back to their communities — and how to frame this activity for external and internal audiences. Here are some best practices for making the most of your firm’s generosity:

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Predictions on how generative AI will transform the legal profession abound. Uncertainty around this emerging technology is also a hot topic, especially for lawyers, whose training makes them (rightly!) skeptical of whether AI tools are trustworthy. Professionals across our industry are trying to...

There’s no way to sugarcoat it: Return-to-office (RTO) mandates have consequences for gender equity in the workplace! Many law firm leaders are ramping up RTO mandates — believing that lawyers need to be in person to best serve clients —...