The American Lawyer's First Women in Law Firms Study

Emily Barker reports on the findings of American Lawyer's first Women in Law study in Stuck in the Middle: Women now make up a healthy proportion of lawyers at large firms. "The mean proportion of women at large firms [remains] close to about one-third," writes Barker. "And while the ranks of female partners have grown steadily, women still account, on average, for fewer than one in five big-firm partners. The greatest numbers of female lawyers remain concentrated at the associate level." [JH]