2016 Azbee Awards of Excellence
Category
Print > Impact/Investigative > Northeast
Awarded to
Julie Triedman, Senior Writer
Entry details
A Few Good Women
Issue date (if applicable): 6/1/2015
Publication name: The American Lawyer Magazine
Publishing company: ALM
Website home page: www.americanlawyer.com
Please describe the publication's mission and readership:
The American Lawyer - We cover the largest law firms in the nation. Lawyers who practice in those megafirms, essentially the legal defense establishment, make up the bulk of our audience. We are also read by the lawyers who hire those firms, typically chief legal officers at Fortune 500 companies; the lawyers who compete with those firms, such as the feisty plaintiffs lawyers who sue the Fortune 500; and the lawyers who either have fled those firms or aspire to build a megafirm of their own. Our audience can find technical help about specific laws from many professional journals; they look to us for legal news and its context, insightful analysis of data and trends, and independent reporting on their business and people.
Please describe the enterprising work that went into this entry and its significance or impact on readers:
Twenty-five years ago, the legal profession confronted its pervasive gender bias problem head-on, pledging to double the number of female equity partners at firms (then at 15 percent) by 2015. Firms adjusted work schedules, created networking and mentorship programs, and hired a small army of corporate anti-bias trainers. And it's all been for naught, American Lawyer senior writer Julie Triedman found after a months-long investigation: The percentage of women equity partners remains stuck at 15 percent, right where it was a quarter-century ago. What's more, she found, women equity partners earn 32 percent less than their male counterparts. Triedman set out to find out what's really holding women lawyers back. Her sobering finding is that the real culprits include such near-intractable factors as changes in firm partnership structures, the cut-throat market for talent, and the lure of in-house jobs at corporations—which, in contrast to law firms, are making strides in gender parity. Triedman's powerful but controversial conclusion: It may be time for quotas.
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A Few Good Women
Category
Print > Impact/Investigative > Northeast
Description
Publication name:
The American Lawyer Magazine
Company:
ALM
Winner Status
- National Bronze Award
- Regional Gold Award
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