Realize your leadership potential – learn how to develop business – take your career to the next level. Obtain concrete advice and guidance and learn best practices from prominent general counsel, judges, and practitioners. The WILL Academy features interactive and highly informative programs concerning cutting-edge issues of importance to every woman lawyer and will enable you to network with leading judges and lawyers from around the country.
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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.

New 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 Bar Leadership Institute - presented by the ABA Division of Bar Services - March 11-12, 2010 in Chicago, IL

Women Trial Lawyers & High Stakes Litigation -- Is There a Glass Ceiling? - presented by the ABA Section of Antitrust Law and the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession - March 23, 2010 in Houston, TX

What Law School Didn't Teach You: Self-Advocacy for Survival and Sustainability - presented by the ABA Presidential Diversity Commission (Distance Learning Program Series) - April 29, 2010

Women's Bar Leadership Summit: Transforming Law, Transforming Lives - presented by the National Conference of Women's Bar Associations (NCWBA) - August 6, 2010 in San Francisco, CA

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

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

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. Deadline to register: Friday, April 23, 2010

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

View a collection of articles and other resources providing women lawyers with practical help in developing business and deal ing with the current economic environment.

ABA Career Productivity Series - Listen - at no cost to ABA members - to one or more of three teleconferences for insight on how to overcome career challenges during this volatile time.

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