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Dear Sisters, Dear Daughters: Strategies for Success from Multicultural Women Attorneys

Order the book - $29.95 per copy, $23.95 for Law Student Division members; quantity discounts are available

Learn more ... and listen to a podcast interview with four authors

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Fair Measure: Toward Effective Attorney Evaluations, Second Edition

Order the book - $69.95 regular/$59.95 ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law Members (available early August)

Listen to an audio interview with co-author Joan C. Williams, law professor and co-director of the Project for Attorney Retention at UC Hastings College of Law

View a video interview with Roberta D. Liebenberg, chair of the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession

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From Visible Invisibility to Visibly Successful: Success Strategies for Law Firms and Women of Color in Law Firms

Download the report at no cost (PDF)
Learn more about the Women of Color Research Initiative

In 1991, the Commission on Women created the Goal IX Report Card to measure women's progress throughout the ABA. Based on a self-reporting questionnaire completed by ABA entities, this report (now the Goal III Report Card) offers a statistical overview of women's participation in leadership positions throughout the various entities of the ABA. View/download the report. View past reports and historical data.

Audio and video downloads from the CLE program, Removing Bias from Attorney Evaluations, presented on October 16, 2009 are now available for purchase. Click on the appropriate link for more information and to order the MP3 audio download, MP4 video download (for iPod), and/or WMV video download (for Windows Media Player).

This is the first event in the ABA Presidential Diversity Program Series: Strategies for Success. The ABA Presidential Diversity Commission is presenting a series of distance learning CLE programs to help diverse lawyers advance their legal careers. The programs address diversity from the perspectives of race, ethnicity, disability, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity.Learn more and view a list of upcoming programs

About two years ago, members of the ABA Health Law Section's Breast Cancer Task Force embarked on a project focusing on the stories of attorneys who had survived breast cancer. Sharing the stories of attorneys who have survived breast cancer provides an opportunity for reducing the sense of isolation and fear commonly experienced among our colleagues. And by developing this online resource of attorney survivor stories, the task force works to convey the message that there is no one "right" way to experience and manage this disease. Learn more, and meet the survivors

American Bar Association Study on U.S. Department of Justice

The ABA Commission on Women in the Profession is launching the second phase of its groundbreaking research initiative on diversity dynamics in the legal profession. If you are currently employed or have been employed as an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice at any point since January 1, 1994, we invite you to click on the link below to register your interest in receiving the survey. On August 15 the survey will be closed.

ABA Study on Diversity in the U.S. Department of Justice –
Survey

For ABA Members: We invite you to receive the Perspectives quarterly magazine in an electronic format. It's easy - all you have to do is log onto the ABA web site and select "Women's Rights" as one of your areas of interest. Follow these step-by-step instructions.

2010 ABA Women Rainmakers Mid-Career Workshop - presented by ABA Women Rainmakers of the Law Practice Management Section - October 22-24, 2010 in Washington, DC

View recent articles on women lawyers, work-life balance, and diversity.