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Date:		Monday, September 20, 2010, 12:15 – 2 p.m.
Location:		Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, 1301 Avenue of the Americas (between 52nd & 53rd Streets – enter at 6th Avenue), 23rd Floor, New York, New York. Please bring a brown bag lunch. Drinks and dessert will be provided by Dewey & LeBoeuf.
Host:		Dewey & LeBoeuf Women's Initiatives Committee
Topic:		Designing a Fair Compensation System at Law Firms.
Description:		There is a longstanding history of pay disparity between male and female lawyers, with the largest gap at the equity partner level. To address this gap, at the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession's suggestion and with its assistance, the Project for Attorney Retention (PAR) and the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA) collaborated on the first-of-its kind survey of nearly 700 women partners on law firm compensation. At this program, Professor Joan Williams, prize-winning author and Distinguished Professor of Law at UC Hastings College of the Law who is also the Director of PAR, and Roberta Liebenberg, Chair of the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession and Senior Partner at Fine, Kaplan and Black, R.P.C., will share highlights of this historic survey, www.pardc.org/Publications/SameGlassCeiling.pdf. They will discuss how law firms have traditionally distributed origination credit and handled the succession process for clients when senior partners retire, and how such policies and the dearth of women on compensation committees have negatively impacted compensation and advancement of women partners. Attendees will learn best practices to help eliminate the income gap by bringing increased transparency, benchmarking, and diversity to the compensation process. Junior and mid-level associates, as well as partners and in-house counsel, will leave the program with a greater understanding of how to redesign compensation and client succession systems so that the contributions made by women partners are more fairly and fully recognized and rewarded.

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