Bloomberg Law
Jan. 3, 2017, 11:17 PM UTC

Women Lawyers See Opportunity to Forge Stronger Ties

Stephanie Russell-Kraft

Why don’t more women stick around at law firms to advance up the ranks? As managing partners and general counsel search for a solution to that problem, a small group of attorneys have devised a work-around.

This fall, Nicole Galli and Gabrielle Sellei launched Women Owned Law, or WOL for short.

It purports to be the first national organization devoted exclusively to women legal entrepreneurs and aims to help women who run their own firms flourish — by swapping business strategies and making client referrals to one another — outside the traditional structures of Big Law.

“It’s one of those things where, as ...

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