What Billables?

After a short hiatus, I’m back!  Did you miss me?  I want to thank everyone who attended or supported the Comedy Night and our Law Week events.  They were hugely successful and lots of fun!

I saw this article on women returning to the workforce after having children and add it as an update to my previous post.  According to the article, one law firm has created a group called “Opt-in Project” to explore the idea of abandoning billable hours to allow for balance in the lives of the firm’s attorneys.  This may be anecdotal (or an exaggeration), but it’s worth noting.

Pay and the Gender Gap

On payday, it’s still a man’s world 

Study: Females earn 80 percent of what men earn one year after graduating from college; falls to 69 percent 10 years later.

That is particularly interesting in light of articles like this:

The New Gender Gap           

From kindergarten to grad school, boys are becoming the second sex

Female Lawyers Association of Gambia

As lawyers we hear a lot about bar associations in the United States (ABA, state and local bar associations, etc.), but not much about how lawyers in other countries organize. This is an interesting post about the newly launched Female Lawyers Association of Gambia.  Gambia is a small country of approximately 1.6 million people in Western Africa.  And no, I am not a crazy feminist or suggesting that you send money, I just think it is an interesting article.