With the elimination of gender bias in the legal workplace, we can further empower our legal experts.
Although men and women lawyers have been entering the legal profession in equal numbers for decades, the number of women partners at mid and large-size law firms continues to hover at approximately 20 percent with the number of successful women rainmakers far below that number. Faced with this depressing reality as well as what often appears to be an unavoidable choice between career success and family, talented women lawyers often opt out of large law firms at what should be the prime of their law firm careers. This course will help law firms and lawyers recognize hidden biases that serve as an obstacle to the advancement of women and establish policies and practices that aid women's advancement as lawyers, rainmakers, and leaders, both inside and outside of the law firm. The material also discusses gender-neutral methods for analyzing applications received and how this relates to the hiring and promotion process. Failing to have policies that aid the advancement of women lawyers not only deprives law firms of the valuable contributions of women lawyers in their leadership but may disqualify the firm from competing for work from certain corporate clients who are demanding that their lawyers be diverse. This information is critical for law firms who wish to provide gender-neutral opportunities for career advancement.
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Emily A. Kaller
Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP
- Partner in the office of Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP
- Practice emphasizes all aspects of litigation and dispute resolution
- Conducts regular seminars and workshops on issues related to gender bias
- Appointed to the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Women in the Courts, 2010-present; Served as Co-chair of the Supreme Court Committee on Women in the Courts Bar Education Subcommittee, 2010-present
- Past chair of the Women in the Profession Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association
- Vice president, Trial Attorneys of New Jersey
- Selected as a Super Lawyer, 2015-2019
- Recipient of the 2013 Professional Lawyer of the Year Award from the Middlesex County Bar Association and New Jersey Commission on Professionalism in the Law
- J.D. degree, Rutgers University School of Law, Newark
- Can be contacted at [email protected] or 732-476-3352
Stephanie A. Reckord
Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP
- Partner in the office of Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP
- Practice emphasizes all aspects of litigation and dispute resolution
- Conducts regular seminars and workshops on issues related to gender bias
- Past chair of the Women in the Profession Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association
- Selected for inclusion in New Jersey Law Journal’s New Leaders of the Bar, 2016
- Selected as a Super Lawyer, Rising Star, 2013-2018
- J.D. degree, magna cum laude, Seton Hall University School of Law; B.A. degree, magna cum laude, Fairleigh Dickinson University
- Can be contacted at 732-476-2404 or [email protected]
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