The AMLaw Daily
April 29, 2010 12:57 PM
Posted by Zach Lowe
The general theme of a big conference starting in Philadelphia Thursday is this: How can female in-house lawyers push firms to promote female lawyers and generally create gender equity in the legal profession? And that is a tall, tall order, according to the results of a survey of 700 female law partners at regional and international firms released this week in conjunction with the conference, reports The Legal Intelligencer, an Am Law Daily sibling publication.
We all know women are underrepresented among law firm partners. But the results of the survey still surprised many of the in-housers gathering for the American Bar Association's Women in Law Leadership Academy, according to the Intelligencer. Among the results that caught our attention:
• Of the 700 respondents, 7.9 percent have been deequitized, most often because their firms wanted to increase profits per equity partner or because their own billables and client origination numbers dropped.
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