I recently moderated a panel during which a woman law firm partner told a story that set the audience buzzing. After several years at her firm, she’d gone to the then managing partner and suggested that it was about time he appoint her to the management committee. He said that he’d in fact been thinking this himself, and she’s been a member of senior firm management ever since.
Certainly her example is not one that every woman lawyer could successfully follow. She made a point of saying that she intentionally chose this firm because of the presence of successful women rainmakers as well as women in a variety of leadership roles. Here, she thought, was a place where it was possible for a woman to succeed.
