The Women in Law Empowerment Forum promises to bestow its “Gold Standards Certification Award” to firms of 100 or more attorneys that have a substantial number of women equity partners, women in leadership roles and women bringing in top compensation.
Forum national chairwoman Elizabeth Ann “Betiayn” Tursi acknowledged that groups including the National Association of Women Lawyers and Working Mother magazine already survey law firms. Unlike those organizations, “we aren’t surveying law firms on policies and practices,” she said. “We’re simply highlighting the firms that have met our standards, which emphasize leadership roles achieved by equity women partners. At the end of the day, I think it’s going to be a short list. These are hard standards.”
