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Posted
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 12:40 PM
| By
Samantha Henig
A post from DoubleX writer KJ Dell'Antonia:
Top law firms report having few or no women on their list of the top 10 "rainmakers."
Fifteen years out of law school and a veteran of big-firm life, I asked
former classmates and colleagues why women don't bring in the bucks.
Should I be surprised that the answers turned out to reflect their own
gender divide?
Men, while offering a nod to the idea that perhaps women led more
balanced lives (proper rainmaking behavior is a 24/7 job: If you've
seen Ari Gold on Entourage,
you've seen somebody making it rain), seemed inclined to put the new
statistic (from a study the National Association of Women Lawyers and reported on Law.com) in the category of "change that hasn't filtered up yet" ... (Read the rest of this article in DoubleX).
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