Jogging with clients. Talking up strangers on the plane. Throwing huge dinner parties, or even a major conference. These are just a few of the ways in which our “champion networkers” have won that title. This year, we chose our 40 Women Leaders in Law on the basis of the creativity, effort and results they’ve shown in making connections that create opportunities for their organizations and others.

Recorder editors sifted through scores of nominations and evaluated lawyers on our own list of known networkers to name the 40 California lawyers profiled here.