Beating men at the game they have made theirs; women lack some easy ways to be rainmakers, but that shouldn't be a block
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Women attorneys must learn marketing skills as this is their road to success at a law firm. Women tend to be less comfortable with some of the skills, such as public speaking, useful in generating business opportunities. Cultivating a specialty, acting as their own publicists through such methods as writing articles, marketing themselves within their law firms, and learning to network are other methods. Women Rainmakers, an organization under the aegis of the ABA, has a membership not limited to lawyers.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1998
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Why women like this Pa. firm
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Philadelphia law firm Ballard Spahr Andrews and Ingersoll has appealing personnel management policies for women including strong mentoring, a liberal part-time and maternity leave policy. The proportion of women attorneys in all the firm's offices ranges from 30 to 37%. These liberal policies are offered to men too so women employees do not feel isolated by taking advantage of them, but they make women feel the firm is interested in them and their needs.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1999
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A two-decade rise to the top; numbers of female trial attorneys have risen dramatically
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The dramatic increase in the number of women trial attorneys is discussed. The 3%oo number in 1971 had by 2000, risen to 30 %. There has been a similar increase in the number of women trial attorneys who in 2000, won many of the million-dollar verdicts.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 2001
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