Note: This is an edited excerpt from an article written by Karen Stringer in the Fall 2020 Women in the Profession newsletter. To read the newsletter, click here ( login required ).
With a surge of women-owned law firms opening in New Jersey and across the country in the last 10-15 years, I wanted to determine the driving forces behind this trend to see what, if anything, these firms were doing differently.
On my quest, I was lucky enough to have had some amazing and thought-provoking discussions with a number of courageous, intelligent women who have bucked BigLaw, ventured out on their own, and started their own thriving, multidisciplinary law firms. These ...