Law Practice
Mar. 18, 2010
A Roundtable of Their Own
Legal consultant Ida Abbott launched a California-based roundtable earlier this year for female law firm leaders."They didn't have other managing partners they could talk to as confidently and as confidentially," Abbott said.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
In interview after interview, Ida Abbott kept hearing the same thing: "I feel isolated."
Abbott, doing research for a book on how female attorneys can attain leadership roles at law firms, realized she could do something to help ease the isolation. The legal consultant and former Heller Ehrman attorney sent an invitation to every female managing partner in California, asking...
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