Carmina Tessitore, head of the CBA’s Women in the Law Section, said women who have risen to leadership positions in law firms should ‘pay it forward’ and make it a point to mentor younger female lawyers.
For decades, law schools across the country have had relatively equal numbers of male and female students. Yet, as the decades wear on, law firms haven’t managed to reflect that sort of gender equality. Now two Connecticut lawyers have been tasked with trying to give women a stronger presence and voice in a male-dominated world.
