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Does Attorney Gender Affect Trial Outcomes?

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In March 2025, UN Women—a United Nations agency that studies and tracks issues of gender equality around the world—indicated that in 2024, “almost one quarter of countries reported … backlash on gender equality.” One proposed...more

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Gender Equality Can’t Wait: Perspectives on Accelerating Action for Women

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For International Women’s Day, we highlight nine leading women from legal and eDiscovery who share their unique perspectives on furthering equity and accelerating action for women....more

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Women’s Representation in the Legal Industry

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In honor of retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, who died in December 2023, this article examines women's representation in the legal industry and in patent law. While...more

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In Conversation, Women Shaping the Future of Legal: Irene Fiorentinos and Amanda Jones

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As part of our new series, In Conversation, Women Shaping the Future of Legal, leading women in the legal industry discuss how diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts can help improve work and the world. By sharing personal...more

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Empowering Through Inclusion: International Women’s Day

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What better day than today, International Women’s Day, to emphasize the importance of creating inclusive environments where women from all backgrounds feel valued, respected and empowered. Organizations can advance...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Podcast - Barbie y el mundo empresarial en Colombia

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¿Qué semejanzas tiene la película Barbie con el mundo actual? Esta es una de las preguntas que nuestro socio Edwin Cortés Mejía, junto con Agustín Hernández, abogado del área corporativa, se plantean en el séptimo episodio de...more

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7 Key Takeaways | Code-Switching: Shifting How We Communicate and Present Ourselves in the Workplace

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Kilpatrick Townsend Partner Samera Ludwig participated in a panel on “Code-Switching: Shifting the Way We Communicate and Present Ourselves in the Workplace” during CenterForce’s Driving Diversity in Law & Leadership Summit...more

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Women’s History Month Spotlight: Part 1 of a Q&A With Ogletree Shareholder Diana J. Nehro

In honor of Women’s History Month, we asked New York shareholder Diana Nehro, the newest member of the firm’s board of directors and chair of Ogletree Deakins’ Cross-Border Practice Group, a few questions about her...more

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CMO Series REPRESENTS - Embracing Equity: Carving a Path in Professional Services Marketing

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Celebrating leading female voices during Women’s History Month and beyond, we caught up with a brilliant group of women in professional services marketing and business development to hear how they have built successful...more

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More Than a Seat at the Table: Women Leaders in LegalTech on Gender Equity

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This year’s International Women’s Day theme is “embracing equity.” The theme challenges us to consider why “equal opportunities are not enough” and reminds us that allies are “incredibly important for the social, economic,...more

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Women Coming on Board in the UK

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On 28 February, 2023 the FTSE Women Leaders Review (the "Review") published its second report (the "2022 Report") on progress in the UK towards meeting its December 2025 target of FTSE 350 companies having at least 40% female...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Insights for Leading Employers on How They Can #EmbraceEquity in the Workplace

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Seyfarth Synopsis: As all of us, and all of us at #Seyfarth celebrate International Women’s Day, several of our global partners provide their thoughts and insights on how both international and domestic employers can...more

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How to Achieve DE&I in Law Firms Now with Roberta “Bobbi” Liebenberg

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Roberta “Bobbi” Liebenberg, senior partner at Fine, Kaplan and Black, to discuss steps law firms can take to achieve better diversity within their organizations....more

Erise IP

Roundtable Discussion: Leading Women In-House Counsel on Leadership, Visibility and Client Engagement

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The gender gap in intellectual property is profound and far-reaching: Nationwide, women make up 37 percent of licensed attorneys, but they represent just 17 percent of patent attorneys. According to the American...more

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WAVe Presents: A Conversation with Mary Ann Sieghart, Author of The Authority Gap

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As part of our Women's History Month celebrations, Venable partner and WAVe chair Jen Bruton hosted a conversation with journalist and author Mary Ann Sieghart to discuss her bestselling book, The Authority Gap: Why Women Are...more

Butler Snow LLP

Paving the Way: Influential Women of Law

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March is Women’s History Month, a time for society to collectively take a moment to appreciate the progress and contributions of women in both the public and private spheres. As we examine the excellence of females throughout...more

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Breaking the Bias: Strategies from Top Women Leaders in Legal Technology

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This year’s International Women’s Day theme revolves around “breaking the bias” and imagining a more gender-equal world. This topic seems particularly relevant for the legal and technology fields, which both have long...more

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“My Story” Featuring Faith Ireland (Retired Judge, Washington Supreme Court) - A video snapshot of JAMS mediator and arbitrator...

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The Pursuit of Gender Equality - Justice Faith Ireland’s legal journey started 50 years ago as a trial lawyer after she graduated from Willamette University College of Law as only one of two women in her class. During...more

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Sidebars Podcast | Huong Nguyen: Uncompromising Authenticity

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Huong Nguyen is currently Vice President, General Counsel, of Fosun Pharma USA Inc. She has spent the majority of her nearly two-decade law practice actively working in the pharmaceutical industry as both an in-house counsel...more

Morgan Lewis

A Conversation on Intersecting Identities, Advocacy, and Allyship

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Women of intersecting identities—including race, gender identity, class, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, and disability—face unique challenges in the workplace. Morgan Lewis, the Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA), the...more

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Framing the American Past to Better Understand Women and Gender History with UC Davis Professors Ellen Hartigan -O’Conner and Lisa...

[Trigger warning: This transcript and related audio recording contains material about sexual violence.] Today we’re going on record with Professors Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor and Lisa Materson. Both women are historians at UC...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Work-Life ‘Balance’ — Don’t Drop the Plates or the Brief!

Partners Katelyn Fredericks, Melissa Foster Bird, Marquetta Bryan, and Ginger Boyd answer questions posed by firm associates on maintaining work-life balance, a constant tension in the lives of working mothers since they...more

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The Fearless 5: Spotlighting 5 Women Who “Choose to Challenge” Gender Bias in the Legal and Tech Fields

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The International Women’s Day (IWD) theme for 2021 is “choose to challenge.” What a fitting theme for a year when 5.4 million women lost their jobs and over 2.1 million women left the workforce, while the COVID-19 pandemic...more

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Reflections on Women’s History Month

We Lost Two Amazing “Sheroes” in the Last Year - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, known affectionally by her legion of fans as “The Notorious RBG,” died at age 87 in September. Because of rampant sex discrimination in the legal...more

Epstein Becker & Green

A Reflection on RBG’s Impact and Legacy

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A couple days after Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away, my eight year old daughter asked me, when I was her age, what I wanted to be when I grew up. I paused and swallowed hard. I had wanted to be a doctor, but despite how well...more

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