When taking office as ABA president last summer, Hilarie Bass announced a year-long study of why the proportion of female lawyers in the ranks of senior lawyers does not match the proportion in law school or in the beginning years in the profession. Great progress has been made in encouraging women to enter the law, at or above their representation in the population; they just continue to leave earlier than their male counterparts.

So what has happened in the intervening months? There were forums at Harvard and Northwestern, focus groups, statistical studies, and a panel discussion at the ABA Convention in Chicago in early August 2018. A more formal written report is promised for September.