by Elizabeth Anne "Betiayn" Tursi | Apr 30, 2020 | Features
As someone who has been part of the legal community for over 40 years, I wasn’t the least bit surprised when some firms started cutting costs, furloughing employees, and making layoffs across the board. Generally, law firms are “cash poor” in the first quarter. It...
by Elizabeth Anne "Betiayn" Tursi | May 13, 2019 | Features
I recently read a Berkshire Hathaway SEC filing stating that it does not consider diversity when hiring board members. Here’s the key passage: “Berkshire does not have a policy regarding diversity in identifying nominees for director. In identifying director nominees,...
by Elizabeth Anne "Betiayn" Tursi | Jan 4, 2017 | Gold Standard News
Happy New Year! Two more firms have met the 2016 Gold Standard. We are pleased to announce that Kutak Rock and Sedgwick (a long time WILEF sponsor) become the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh law firms to join the ranks of the Gold Standard. The WILEF 2017 Gold...
by Elizabeth Anne "Betiayn" Tursi | Oct 25, 2016 | Features
Amid the recent spate of reporting about how women in law firms are undercompensated as compared to men, I think it does a disservice to the profession to not state what I know to be true. As the Global Chair of the Women in Law Empowerment Forum (WILEF), I consider...
by Elizabeth Anne "Betiayn" Tursi | Oct 17, 2016 | Gold Standard News
On September 22, WILEF celebrated its Tenth Anniversary with a gala cocktail party at The Yale Club in New York City. The 2016 Gold Standard awards went to 34 law firms. Valerie Radwaner, Deputy Chair of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, a WILEF sponsor,...