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Confident Communication Key to Success
The glass ceiling is alive and well in America's 200 largest law firms. According to a survey released last October by the National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL), women make up a paltry 16% of equity partners, 16% of governance committee members and 5% of managing partners in these firms. NAWL says the firms should double the number of women equity partners and corporations should reach the same target with chief legal officers by 2015. Even so, the percentage of women in equity and leadership roles in the legal profession would still fail to reflect that women now represent about 50% of all law school graduates.
Many law firms, already mindful of the challenge of retaining and promoting women lawyers, have instituted formal women's initiatives. Pepper Hamilton's Web site features the firm's 'Pepper WIN!' program geared to recruiting, retaining, promoting and supporting women attorneys. Day Berry and Howard's site also describes a women's initiative, 'Women Working Together,' intended to enhance opportunities for women attorneys through networking, mentoring and professional development. These programs likely serve dual purposes: bolstering skills and creating goodwill between the firms and their women attorneys.
Since speaking with persuasive self-confidence is critical to the success of any professional ' and since oral communication skills generally are neither taught in law school nor innate to everyone who chooses to join the legal profession ' one area of professional development that holds increasing interest for law firms is communication skills. Today's law firm professional development programs often include a public speaking or presentation skills component. Many are investing not only in educating lawyers in the general features of effective presentation style and structure, but also in offering attorneys the opportunity to work one-on-one with coaches who deliver pointed feedback tailored to each attorney's strengths and weaknesses. These programs are by no means limited to litigators. All attorneys deliver presentations of one kind or another to other attorneys at work, to clients, or sometimes to larger audiences of peers or prospective clients. Even extroverted lawyers who feel comfortable in public speaking situations are candidates for coaching, for the same reason that Tiger Woods still takes golf lessons.
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