Strategies for Success: Tips for Women Lawyers from Two Trailblazing Women Who Found Their Own Paths
The following is an interview with two trail-blazing female attorneys, Eboni K. Williams and Jade Brown Russell. Both have published books on how to work through and navigate the male dominate field of law.
Jade Brown Russell focuses on diversity and inclusion with the executives roles in law a that are severally lacking female counterparts. Similarly, Eboni K. Williams focuses the differences in “individual satisfaction and personal happiness” that is specific towards female lawyers.
What It Takes to Be a Trial Lawyer If You’re Not a Man
Lara Bazelon describes her experience, and the experience of other female attorneys, for the past decade and the different aspects of law that she had to overcome to be seen as an equal. She also brings in an analysis of Deborah Rhode’s landmark 2001 report on sexism in law. She describes aspects that future female lawyers should take into account when it comes to competing with their male counterparts, such as clothing to not apologizing too much.