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Women's Initiatives: Women's Initiatives Create Opportunity and Benefits in Law Firms

By Vivian Hood
December 01, 2018

According to the U.S. Census, there are more than 400,000 women lawyers today who comprise just over 1 in 3 (38%) lawyers. The year 2018 marked the 25th anniversary of the appointment of Janet Reno, the first woman to serve as attorney general of the United States, and still only a few firms focus on women in the legal profession, including judicial law clerks and judges.

Improvements are slow, but sure, as we saw from the recent midterm elections of 37 women lawyers — about a third of all the women newly elected — and the all-female group of law clerks Justice Brett Kavanaugh hired for the 2018 term, pushing the balance of the entire law clerk class to more than 50% female for the first time.

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