The Cheat Sheet

Context

My personal goal has been to make work/life balance and women's issues a basis of competition among law firms, as historically has been the case for salary and pro bono work. As the Founder and President of Flex-Time Lawyers LLC, I have run over 100 meetings providing a forum for lawyers and legal employers to share information on work/life and women's issues to improve the retention and promotion of women in the profession. Law firm practitioners are working hard to improve the status of women inside law firms. Increasingly, in-house counsel are using diversity as a criteria for selecting outside counsel which is also driving change. As of 2006, law students had been an untapped competitive pressure point to improve the retention and promotion of women in the profession. However, on September 14, 2006, that changed.