Lawyers in BigLaw are free agents and they do not see their co-owners through thick and thin.
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Recently, legal practice expert, Jordan Furlong of Law.21, called women leaving BigLaw (the AmLaw200) a good thing.
What I mean to do is simply tell the stories of some women who found a way to make BigLaw work for them.
Cohen is the rare woman who has not only survived but thrived in BigLaw since her graduation from Loyola Law School in 1978.
There are enormous differences in the scale, scope, and complexity of work handled at the very top of biglaw and the rest of the V100.
One hiring practice that discourages minority hiring can be found within the many (but now dwindling) BigLaw firms that only hire candidates from the top 20 law schools.
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Biglaw is all about fanatic dedication to the whims of the client, but those whims have a very different shape for different types of transactions and different areas of law.
But so long as BigLaw remains a professional sector that wields such enormous economic and political power, it is a mistake to urge women lawyers to give up the fight for parity there.
As an official member of the ruling classes, first in a BigLaw firm and then as a Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago, he was able to make the contacts necessary to make serious bids for political office.
It turns out that being a high performing law student is close to being a necessary condition of succeeding at the high end of biglaw, but it says very little about whether or not you can actually handle the work and the culture of biglaw.
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