Archived Issue
July/August 2007
Cover Story: MCCA’s ® 2007 Survey of Fortune 500 Women General Counsel
MCCA presents its annual report on women general counsel of companies in the Fortune 500, as well as in the Fortune 501-1000, examining current trends and recent developments for women at the legal helm of some of the nation’s most successful corporations. And learn more about three outstanding attorneys profiled in the article: Michelle Banks, Gap Inc.; Sandra Leung, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company; and Teri Plummer McClure, UPS.
Features
Columns
A Diversity Program Without a Work/Life Component Just Won’t Work
By Joan C. Williams
This article is the first in a two-part series about work/life balance and diversity programs. The second part, coming in the next issue of Diversity & the Bar, will focus…
Reintroducing Women’s Equality
By Melanie Lasoff Levs
What Impact Will an ERA Have on the Workplace Today? Members of Congress introduced two bills in March to pass the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and workplace experts, employment attorneys,…
Gay and Lesbian Attorneys Out at the Firm, Part 2
By Patrick Folliard
LGBT Diversity: Recruiters and Law Students At the Lavender Law conference and career fair in San Diego in 2005, 62 recruiters came to network with members of the lesbian, gay,…
Domestic Partner Benefits in America’s Heartland
By Kathleen Dreessen
Young associates at progressive firms may not realize that a mere quarter-century ago, companies did not offer domestic partner benefits. It took the New York City weekly paper, The Village…
Merging Into Uncharted Territory
By Kara Mayer Robinson
What It Takes for a Newly Combined Law Firm to Successfully Meld Two Diversity Programs Few would dispute the competitive advantages intrinsic to law firm mergers and acquisitions, from expanded…
Notes from the Executive Director
By Veta T. Richardson
Reflecting On a Legacy-Honoring Cathy Lamboley Ten years ago, MCCA published the first survey of women general counsel at the 500 largest U.S. corporations as ranked by Fortune magazine. MCCA…
Vocation/ Avocation
By Patrick Folliard
Adonica-Jo R. Wada This is the fourth of six articles that will examine lawyers and their work practices by day in contrast to the personal interests that they pursue outside…
Work in Balance
By Deborah Epstein Henry
Stepping Into Your Shoes: It’s Time for Job Shares in Law Firms Deborah Epstein Henry This column is the fourth of six articles that will be written this year about…
Departments
Spotlighting
By Patrick Folliard
Elisabeth Belmont: Making Health Care Work Growing up in small-town Sanford, Maine, Elisabeth Belmont learned firsthand the challenges of navigating the multifaceted health care delivery system from her father, a…
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