Category Archives: Promotion

What are influential women saying about women in the legal profession?

The number of women in law has been a talking point within the profession for some time now.  As their presence continues to increase particularly amongst the graduate ranks we see that women now make up almost half the number of lawyers at 46%. What is disheartening however from this statistic, is that only 16% [...]

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Delegating – It doesn’t need to be a nightmare!

For many of us, delegating is a skillful art that we think only a handful of people will ever master. One of the biggest challenges for many young lawyers is learning how to best make use of time and resources by delegating tasks or projects. Though the “I’ll do it myself” mentality is “the norm” [...]

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Women in Leadership : Who touched the handbrake?

Through the ages, societal factors have been known to marginalise and hold women back professionally, but as Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg suggests maybe women play a role in limiting their potential as well. Sandberg addressed the graduates of Barnard University in Boston, discussing an issue of importance; the lack of women in top rank positions [...]

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Transparency May Lead to Retention

Second-tier lawyers may well become a thing of the future with US-based law firm, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe creating a new role within the legal industry. As Career Associates, these lawyers will not end up as partners or earn the same money as their colleagues will, but many are choosing this path to have more [...]

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Legal Profession Needs Women Too

Some thoughts on a BRW feature article ‘‘Why business men need women’ (20-26 May, 2010) which reflected many familiar themes between women in the legal profession and the progression of women to corporate boards.

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