Work-life balance is often pegged as the reason women leave traditional law firms. But for the growing number of women establishing their own firms, their departure is often rooted more deeply in gender inequality in the profession than in raising children or having more free time.
Jennifer Beckage, founder and managing director of Beckage in Buffalo, New York, said that she and her four female co-founders joined forces to focus on their mutual practice area of technology and privacy protection. Beckage, a former Phillips Lytle partner, said she’s noticed an interesting reaction to the fact that her firm is women-owned.
