Women Attorneys of Color: From Visible Invisibility to Visibly Successful
Success Strategies for Women of Color in Law Firms
Two categories of strategies need to occur simultaneously in order for law firms to achieve sustained success with women of color: 1) institutional changes in the way law firms are run, and 2) the empowerment of individual women of color to build the support, skills, resources, and power to succeed in spite of the barriers that currently exist in law firms. The women of color partners in national law firms interviewed for From Visible Invisibility to Visibly Successful: Success Strategies for Law Firms and Women of Color in Law Firms identified the following personal strategies they employed to be successful in law firms in spite of being "the first" or "the only" woman of color in their different firms.
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Believe in yourself, and do not let anyone shake your belief in yourself.
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Give excellence. Get success.
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If you can’t find mentors, you have to make mentors.
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It takes a village to raise a lawyer.
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Network, network, network.
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It’s all about that book [of business].
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Take care of yourself.
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Show up. Speak up.
Sponsoring Entity:
ABA Commission on Women in the Profession
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