Sheryl Axelrod’s Article, “The Underrepresentation of Women at the Highest Levels of the Legal Profession,” Was Published by the American Bar Association’s Award-Winning Law Practice Today e-Magazine
Sheryl Axelrod’s sobering, data-driven piece, “Despite All the Profession Has to Gain from our Greater Inclusion: The Under-Representation of Women at the Highest Levels of the Legal Profession,” was published by the American Bar Association’s award-winning Law Practice Today e-magazine.
As she discusses in it, the legal profession is in crisis, with a gross underrepresentation of women at the top of its leadership ranks, especially women of color and LBT+ women.
She thanks the remarkable women who generously contributed important and thoughtful quotes to the piece:
Jamie Augustinsky of PENN Entertainment, Inc (who also kindly gave feedback and suggested edits to initial drafts of it);
Lisa Savitt of The Axelrod Firm;
Amanda J. Davidson of Fine and Staud LLP;
Sharina Rodriguez of Nukk-Freeman & Cerra, PC Employment Attorneys;
Marguerite Willis of Nexsen Pruet, LLC;
Jamie Rudman Kloosterman of Sanchez & Amador, LLP; and
Leslie Davis, CEO of National Association of Minority & Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF).
She also extends her gratitude to those who have studied these matters, whose stellar works she cites in the piece, including:
Destiny Peery;
Paulette Brown;
Eileen M. Letts;
Corrine Propas Parver;
Cory Amron;
Lorelie Masters;
The National Association of Women Judges;
McKinsey & Company;
Women Lawyers on Guard; and
The Commission on Women ABA (the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession)
Sheryl plans to write a follow-up article on what we can do to solve this problem but first, we have to come to grips with the profound scope of it, and barriers to its improvement.
Sheryl Axelrod’s sobering, data-driven piece, “Despite All the Profession Has to Gain from our Greater Inclusion: The Under-Representation of Women at the Highest Levels of the Legal Profession,” was published by the American Bar Association’s award-winning Law Practice Today e-magazine.
You can read it for free here.
As she discusses in it, the legal profession is in crisis, with a gross underrepresentation of women at the top of its leadership ranks, especially women of color and LBT+ women.
She thanks the remarkable women who generously contributed important and thoughtful quotes to the piece:
She also extends her gratitude to those who have studied these matters, whose stellar works she cites in the piece, including:
Sheryl plans to write a follow-up article on what we can do to solve this problem but first, we have to come to grips with the profound scope of it, and barriers to its improvement.