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Rainmakers

Oct. 26, 2007

Women Can Bring Keen Insight to Wooing Clients

Women can bring to the cultivation of legal business many insights that often elude men. Among them: Being kind to business associates serves a higher purpose than just cutting a deal.

"That was the strangest business development lunch I've ever attended."
      These were the first words spoken by one of my male partners in the parking lot. Four of us (two women and two men) had just finished courting two in-house lawyers for a major telecommunications company, both female.
      "You didn't really talk about business until the end of the lunch," he said. "You talked about personal stuff unti...

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