Blog 33

More and more women are gaining high-powered positions in law firms. They are sometimes discouraged because they work really hard and do not always get the positions they are working towards. Some of the challenges they face are how to be authoritative and how to get your point across without seeming like a not so nice person. Some women realize that if they are too nice, they will be taken advantage of or walked all over. But other women also realize that being bitchy is not the best way to handle every situation, people begin to avoid you and do not want to be around you. Also the fact that a lot of male lawyers only want to train and mentor other males, they are often the ones that get the bigger cases. There is a discomfort when men and women have to travel together. They are afraid that there will be rumors about them sleeping together, so they sometimes try to take cases that are not cases that they will have to travel for. A few women in decided to start their own law firm that will be a women only law firm. They said that it had been a challenge, but they are finally beginning to take off. They are hiring new associates and they are all female and the partners are all female as well.