34 Firms Receive WILEF Gold Standard Certification

The Women In Law Empowerment Foundation announced today that 28 U.S. law firms and six U.K. law firms have been awarded Gold Standard Certification. Every year, WILEF grants Gold Standard status to major firms that meet objective criteria involving the number of women...

Event on How Women Can Support Each Other Ignites Enthusiastic Discussion

On April 20, 2023, the WILEF Northern California Lawyers’ Committee and Young Lawyers’ Committee hosted an inspiring and insightful fireside chat at the San Francisco offices of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, which was titled: “Lifting While We Climb: How We Can...

Q&A: Giovanna Cinelli of Morgan Lewis

Last fall, Morgan Lewis partner Giovanna Cinelli, leader of the firm’s international trade and national security practice, was elevated to Visiting Fellow of George Mason University’s National Security Institute (NSI). A former Naval Reserve intelligence officer,...

Women of Color and Their Success Stories, Making the Most of Mentoring

On November 9, 2022, the WILEF East Young Lawyers’ Committee presented to a packed and engaged audience an exciting and impressive panel discussion, held at the offices in New York of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Garrison & Wharton, on: “Women of Color and Their Success...

Trailblazing Women Forging Their Own Paths in Private Practice

By Hayley Winograd Reprinted with permission of the New York State Bar Association © 2022. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor could not get a job at a law firm after graduating from Stanford Law School in 1952.1 “When I was first looking for work, they just weren’t hiring...

WILEF Announces First Round of Firms Awarded US and UK Gold Standard Certification

Thirty-two US law firms and five UK firms have been awarded 2022 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...

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Roberta Kaplan, Paul Weiss

by Andrew Longstreth | Aug 8, 2016 | Q&A - The Ladder

When evaluating Roberta Kaplan’s career, it’s hard to overstate the importance of her decision in 2009 to take on a client named Edith Windsor, an elegant and charismatic gay widow who had been hit with $363,053 in estate taxes because the federal government did not...

Mike Lackey, Mayer Brown

by WILEF | Jun 23, 2016 | Q&A - XY Factor

Mike Lackey leads Mayer Brown’s global Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice, but he didn’t set out to be a lawyer at all. His unusual career took him from MIT, through the Navy’s Top Gun school and to the brink of the astronaut program before a sharp turn into law. In January, he became one of the first men to join WILEF’s advisory board.

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