Tips From the Top: Trailblazing Women Weigh In on What it Takes to Succeed
The Legal Intelligencer
April 24, 2012
Just 19 percent of U.S. law firm partners were women in 2011. And while nearly half (42 percent) of the members of the Association of Corporate Counsel are female, just 101 women (or 20 percent) hold the chief legal officer position among Fortune 500 firms. For the rest of the Fortune 1000 (companies ranked 501 to 1000 in revenue), 82 CLOs (or 16 percent) are women. These numbers should be much higher given that women have comprised nearly half of the nation’s law school enrollment for more than two decades. Full Text
