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Law Practice

Mar. 24, 2011

A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words

The Daily Journal should do more to showcase the contributions of female lawyers. By Gay Grunfeld of Rosen, Bien & Galvan and Leslie Thornton.


By Gay Grunfeld and Leslie Thornton


More than a decade after women approached 50 percent of most law school classes, only 19 percent of partners in law firms are women. In San Francisco, the percentage is slightly higher at 24 percent. Consistent with these dismal statistics, in 2010, female lawyers' median salary was approximately 77 percent of male lawyers' median salary. During the recessionary period of 2008 to 2010, women lawyers' median salary d...

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