This topic is old as the hills, but apparently it’s still a touchy subject. When I ask some female lawyers about it, they snap at me like feisty turtles. Their message: Do not go there.

“I think it’s a terrible, dangerous, retrograde topic,” says a female partner at an Am Law 100 firm. “Really, please stop.” She adds, “I don’t think rivalries exist between women any more than between anyone else.”