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The Women in Law Empowerment Forum (WILEF) Announces First Round of Firms Awarded 2018 Gold Standard Certification
New York, NY – Forty-two (42) law firms have been awarded 2018 Gold Standard Certification by the Women in Law Empowerment Forum (www.wilef.com). WILEF grants Gold Standard status to major firms that meet objective criteria concerning the number of women among equity...
WILEF Now Accepting Gold Standard Applications
WILEF is now accepting applications for the 2018 Gold Standard Certification. The recognition is open to law firms with 300 or more practicing attorneys in the United States. To be included in the initial listing of 2018 Gold Standard Firms, applications must be...
WILEF Announces New Gold Standard Chair
Nancy Bertoglio, a former equity partner with K&L Gates and Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, has been selected as the new Chair of WILEF's Gold Standard Certification Committee. Bertoglio comes to the job with a long and distinguished record in Big Law. In 1999, she was...
44 Firms Receive WILEF’s Gold Standard Certification
Forty-four law firms have been awarded the Gold Standard Certification by the Women in Law Empowerment Forum, a significant jump from the 31 that earned the distinction by this time last year. WILEF grants Gold Standard status to major firms that meet objective...
The WILEF 2017 Gold Standard Certification Period Begins
The application for the WILEF 2017 Gold Standard Certification is now available. Requests for the application and questions should be made to WILEF’s Co-Founder and Global Chair, Elizabeth Anne “Betiayn” Tursi via email at elizabethtursi@aol.com. Applications must be...
Two More Firms Obtain Gold Standard Certification
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...
Law Practice magazine features Gold Standard
The WILEF Gold Standard received the feature treatment in latest issue of Law Practice magazine. In a piece entitled, "Lessons from Women Law Firm Leaders," law practice management consultant Marcia Watson Wasserman spoke with two women law firms leaders, including...
Highlights from WILEF’s Tenth Anniversary reception
On September 22, WILEF celebrated its Tenth Anniversary with a gala cocktail party at The Yale Club in New York City, where women reflected on the organization's impact on the legal profession. WILEF Global Chair and Co-founder Elizabeth Anne "Betiayn" Tursi presided...
Gold Standard Certification playing key role in gender-based pay equity debate
As the debate over the pay equity gap between men and women in Big Law gets aired in the press, the WILEF Gold Standard Certification is taking on ever greater significance. On Tuesday, Law.com reported on the stories of women law firm leaders who carry memories of...