Women in Law Leadership Academy

Karen H — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:33:25 -0500

Start: 8 Nov 2007 - 9:30am

End: 9 Nov 2007 - 12:30pm

Timezone: America/Chicago

Sponsored by the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession

Visit http://www.abanet.org/women/will.html for more info, to register, to sponsor, etc.

Chicago

I can do anything you can do better!

Peg — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:56:32 -0500

So there's an article in the NYlawyer.com yesterday about women and law firm recruiting. The article is titled: Generation XX . (I'm not sure what that's about. Hey, NYL, is that some sort of reference to pornography?) Anyway, you can find it here but it requires a registration.

The article reports that a high percentage of law firms are reporting that their summer classes have equal or higher numbers of women than men. To me this makes perfect sense because law school classes are close to equal. So why is this news?

"Just from talking to attorneys at other firms, we all have the distinct impression that women are disproportionately represented in the upper ranks of the classes in terms of their grades," says Lovita T. Tandy, a partner in the Altanta office of King & Spalding and chair of the firm's Diversity Committee.

Oh, so that's why -- girls are smarter than boys?