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Yale Law Women Top Ten Family Friendly Firms
Here at Yale Law Women (YLW), Yale Law School?s resident women?s group, we have just completed our third annual review of family friendly policies at the nation?s top law firms. After surveying Vault?s Top 100 firms, we have analyzed the data to produce YLW?s Top Ten Family Friendly Firms List...

Working Mother Magazine Names Second Annual 50 Best Law Firms for Women
The second-annual list of the best law firms for women, published by Working Mother magazine and Flex-Time Lawyers, highlights fewer Pennsylvania-based firms this year. The unranked list of the 50 best firms in the nation named Fox Rothschild and Morgan Lewis & Bockius as some of the best law firms for women based on several criteria...

Women Lawyers on TV
This year's 50 Best Law Firms for Women survey is out (a good resource for students among other things). An accompanying article provides a timeline of "TV's Leading Women in Law." I'm not sure this subject has the appropriate gravitas for a real problem: the article and survey report that attrition rates for women at major law firms is about 76% by the fifth year and that 42% of women lawyers leave the profession at some point in their careers...

"A New Game Plan for Retaining Women at Firms"
In the news: “The National Association of Women Lawyers will urge law firms to compensate senior attorneys for promoting diversity,...

Best Firms for Women--Round II
I noted a month ago that Working Women magazine has come out with it's second annual list of best law firms for women. Yale has now come out with it's own third annual list. For my Boston readers, WilmerHale and Mintz Levin have made the cut...

Obstacles to Career Advancement for Women Lawyers
A study by the MIT Workplace Center of the career paths of women lawyers in large Massachusetts firms 2001-2005 indicates that family responsibilities still form a major obstacle to advancement...

Lipitor
Review of Studies Show No Significant Benefit in Women

Whole Foods
And Other Firms Sued by California Attorney General,

Brown Greer et al.
alleging that the six law firms handling the Vioxx settlement failed to provide money for reimbursements to lien rights of Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) health plans.