Culhane’s Atlanta and New York partners, Heather Haughian and Nicole Joseph respectively, recently authored an article about the female attorney pay rate which has been published in Bloomberg Law.

Here are a few excerpts from Heather and Nicole’s article:

Women continue to be directed toward less lucrative practices, affecting compensation, their ability to make partner, and a path to firm leadership. This is the biggest contributor to the wage gap in the legal profession.

Advocacy, activism, and allyship—especially from men—are vital to shaping an inclusive, progressive, and ultimately equitable profession.

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Firms can help create gender parity by including women in client succession planning. They should also examine how female associates are allocated to practice areas at the beginning of their careers, and create a pipeline for women onto the leadership track.

Experienced female attorneys still often leave their legal careers due to gender-related challenges, such as disproportionate caretaking commitments, being mistaken for lower-level employees, and other social constraints.

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It also means opening doors for others. Minority attorneys, especially Black and Latina women, are significantly underrepresented in law. As women reach a numerical tipping point in the legal profession, they’re gaining the ability—and the responsibility—to create change that can benefit all underrepresented attorneys.

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