ABA Women Rainmakers
The ABA Women Rainmakers committee has three primary goals:
- To educate professional women about marketing and business development.
- To provide mentoring opportunities for members at both the local and national level.
- To provide networking opportunities to build personal and professional relationships.
Join the ABA Women Rainmakers Today.
You must be both an ABA Member and an LPM Section Member to join.
ABA Women Rainmaker News
- NEW: "Law Firms Inch Ahead in Promoting Women." By Teresa McAleavy for the online edition of The Record on NorthJersey.com
- "COMMENTARY: Legal Profession Needs to Evaluate and Overhaul Itself to Retain Women" Maureen Steady and Rachel Shapiro.
- The MIT Workplace Center has released an important report "Women Lawyers and Obstacles to Leadership" . The report was released by the Massachusetts Bar Association.
- Read New York Times article, "Female Lawyers Set Sights on Yet One More Goal: A Seat on the Board," April 6, 2007
- Read about Rachelle Canter's new & exciting book: Make The Right Career Move.
- Listen to rainmaking tips from Christine Baker, partner at Drinker Biddle
ABA Women Rainmaker Events
Many thanks to the ABA Women Rainmakers who helped make this year's workshop a success!
The ABA Women Rainmakers Mid-Career Workshop is a biannual event with the next workshop occurring in November 2010. If you missed this year’s workshop, ABA Women Rainmakers holds various programs at other LPM Meetings. Details for the 2010 ABA Women Rainmakers Mid-Career Workshop will be available in the coming months.
If you missed the ABA Women Rainmakers Mid-Career Workshop in Puerto Rico from October 20-22, 2007, you may download the Program Book.
Meet the Rainmaker
ABA Women Rainmakers has a column named Meet the Rainmaker. This column is featured in one of the LPM monthly webzines, Law Practice Today. We would like to receive submissions for this column featuring a women rainmaker you may know. This rainmaker may be yourself, a colleague, mentor, or friend. You would need to conduct an interview with that person (if applicable) and then submit a write-up about this person. Please submit your Meet the Rainmaker features to Svetlana Kramarova at kramaros@staff.abanet.org. Submissions will be featured in order received. One Rainmaker will be featured monthly. There is no deadline. View the interviewing template with sample questions.
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The National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL)
In keeping with one of ABA Women Rainmakers’ primary goals, “to educate professional women about marketing and business development,” we recommend reading the results of NAWL’s recent survey, which annually tracks the professional progress of women in the nation’s 200 largest law firms. We are pleased that members of the ABA Women Rainmakers Steering Committee participated in the NAWL Survey Committee and are recognized as having provided substantial assistance implementing the 2008 Survey.
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