Wake Up Call: Why Women Leave Big Law to Start Their Own Firms

• In a story package published on Big Law Business, reporter Stephanie Russell-Kraft interviewed more than 20 women who departed their jobs at large law firms to start their own firms, more than half of whom became partner before departing Big Law. There were significant commonalities in their stories, chief among them frustration — with what they perceived to be inequitable pay compared to male counterparts, the slow grind of what they saw as implicit sexism, and the structural barriers to their advancement embedded within the Big Law ‘boys’ club as some called it. ( BLB )

• BLB also spoke ...