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How Women Lawyers Can Chart a Different Course

By Kimberly Alford Rice
June 02, 2014

For all the chatter, studies, and disheartening stats we read on where Women in the Law rank in the legal services sector, I say “phooey.” Yes, the numbers stink; yes, there are real barriers, discrimination, disappointing treatment from law firm leadership, but hey, we are women “with a capital W,” as the phrase goes.

Though I am not nor ever have been a practicing attorney, I have also carefully and strategically navigated the career slalom among my male counterparts in the sense that I am usually the only woman in the board room; have been perceived as a “trouble-maker” at times when I preferred to regard my role as a “positive change agent” and have proactively spoken out for and against a leadership decision when I sensed it was misguided.

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