by WILEF | Jan 3, 2019 | Features
Mayer Brown has a new partner-in-charge for its Chicago office: Britt M. Miller, co-leader of the firm’s global Antitrust & Competition practice. Miller succeeds Rebecca Eisner, who has led the Chicago office since 2015. We recently spoke with Miller about her new...
by WILEF | Sep 11, 2018 | Features
WILEF held its 2018 annual meeting at the New York offices of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius on September 6. WILEF leadership and board members from around the country, as well as London and Paris, participated. Among the highlights: The inaugural WILEF Above and...
by WILEF | Sep 11, 2018 | Features
The Women in Law Empowerment Forum is pleased to announce that its Founding Sponsor, Donnelley Financial Solutions, has created a Grant to be applied to the WILEF Young Lawyers Committee (YLC). WILEF believes the future of the legal profession rests with young...
by WILEF | Jul 13, 2018 | Features
This year’s recipients of the WILEF Women’s Campaign School at Yale scholarship have been announced: Alexis Gurganious and Hala Abdallah. Alexis is a recent Yale University graduate who plans to run for public office. She aspires to make bipartisanship the...
by WILEF | Apr 23, 2018 | Features
For the first time, two women sit atop a global law firm. On April 3, Therese Pritchard and Lisa Mayhew officially became co-chairs of the newly combined Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, an organization with around 1,600 lawyers spread across 32 offices in 11 countries....
by WILEF | Mar 16, 2018 | Features
There was no grand plan, no secret conspiracy. It just happened. For the first time in the history of the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law (JETLaw), an all-female board will be at the helm this fall. Given the long history of male-dominated law...
