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Top Women Lawyers

Jun. 2, 2006

Editor's Note: How We Got Here

In the beginning, I was against this list. I came of age in the post-feminist era and have long believed singling out women in this type of format only continues to ghettoize us. If we are truly to gain equal footing with men, shouldn't we abolish the notion that we are in a special class?

In the beginning, I was against this list.
      I came of age in the post-feminist era and have long believed singling out women in this type of format only continues to ghettoize us. If we are truly to gain equal footing with men, shouldn't we abolish the notion that we are in a special class?
      But while overseeing the 2005 and 2006 Top Women Litigator supplements, I had a change of heart. Women account ...

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