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How Women Can Take First Chair

5/30/2017

 
​A recent report from the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women and the American Bar Foundation confirmed what most of already sensed. In a study of trials and trial lawyers in the Northern District of Illinois, researchers concluded that women appear in civil trials less often than men, and when they do appear, are far less likely to appear as first chair.
 
Which was news to exactly none of us out here in the trenches.

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