When I went through the on-campus interview process to become a law firm summer associate, my partner and I were already trying for a baby. The family-friendliness of the firms I interviewed with was, therefore, a top priority for me—although I wasn’t willing to sacrifice being in a place that would challenge, push and train …
A Family-Friendly Law Firm: Reality or Rhetoric? Read More »
Early in my career my (female) supervisor handed me a dog-eared paperback (it was not quite old and battered enough to be moldy, but let’s pretend it was, because that enhances the story). I was advised to read it, sharpish. Dutifully, that evening, I pulled the book out of my bag and started. “The Compleat …
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Gillien Todd, a consultant with Triad Consulting Group, executive coach and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, recently joined us at Debevoise’s New York office to facilitate a workshop on Leadership and Identity for women lawyers at all levels in the firm. Following the workshop, Gillien sat down with the Debevoise Women’s Review to …
Deborah Gillis is President and CEO of Catalyst, a leading international nonprofit organization working to accelerate progress for women through workplace inclusion. We recently sat down with Deborah to discuss her leadership style, spearheading the sponsorship movement and her work towards continued corporate diversity and inclusion. Q: You’ve occupied many leadership positions during your career. …
Justin Trudeau Perfectly Sums Up Why We Need More Women In Power by Madeline Farber, Fortune, April 7, 2017 At the Women in the World Summit in New York, Justin Trudeau addressed the importance of promoting women to positions of power, and the role that men need to play to make it happen. Women’s March …
Note from the Editors: We were touched to receive this submission to the Debevoise Women’s Review from one of our summer associates, Margo Watson. Margo’s submission is an important reminder of the effect that a commitment to diversity and inclusion can have both within and outside of an organization. We celebrate our peer firms in …
Much can be said for the benefits of cultivating strong and supportive mentoring relationships. In recent years, mentoring has had to share the spotlight with another form of professional relationship: sponsorship. Admittedly, at the outset of my legal career, I was unaware of the distinction between a more traditional mentoring relationship and sponsorship. While I …
Deborah D’Aubney is Chief Counsel, Litigation & Investigations at Rolls-Royce. She qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales in 1992 and then worked for two years at a law firm in Birmingham. After a maternity leave in 1995, Deborah went on secondment to Forward Trust, the asset finance arm of Midland Bank which had …
Q&A with Deborah D’Aubney, Chief Counsel of Rolls-Royce Read More »
From the time my husband and I married seven years ago, people have been talking to me about children. “You think marriage is a big adjustment,” they would say. “Just wait until you have kids – it will change your life.” In my mind, these well-meaning words referred to that lovely phenomenon of beholding a …
Returning from Maternity Leave: An Associate’s Perspective Read More »
Sasha Scott runs The Inclusive Group, which over the last 15 years has educated and facilitated over 50,000 professionals, from lawyers to members of the armed forces, on the need for authenticity and acceptance in the workplace. Sasha recently provided training to Debevoise’s London office on unconscious bias. Sasha, who identifies as LGBT, is considered an international …