I led a lively and fascinating discussion at my 50th reunion at Smith College. Sixty percent of our class attended and what a group it was! The vast majority of these women married and had long careers, many are still working, most were and are politically and intellectually engaged, and all had great stories to tell.
Nora Riva Bergman’s wonderful new book, “50 Lessons for Women Lawyers from Women Lawyers,” has just been published. I was privileged to contribute one of the lessons, “Stay Curious,” which emphasizes the importance for your career success and lifelong happiness of staying open to new and challenging ideas and experiences. You can read my lesson here. You can also learn more about the book and the contributors, and read excerpts from all the lessons, here.
I will conduct a webinar sponsored by the Smith College Alumnae Association about designing your future after age 60. It is open to the public. You can register here.
This year’s Law Without Walls Composium for LWOW X takes place virtually, as does all our team’s work. It’s always exciting and inspiring to see the amazing ideas and projects presented by the immensely talented students who participate from all over the world. I am again privileged to be a mentor to one of the teams.
The Seventh Circuit Bar Association Diversity and Inclusion Committee is sponsoring a program in Milwaukee on the importance of mentoring, and I am honored to participate.
Rebecca Normand-Hochman wrote a wonderful review of my book, The Lawyer’s Guide to Mentoring, in the October issue of Modern Legal Practice. Read it here: Book Review LGM2
The October 2018 issue of Modern Legal Practice contains a host of interesting articles. I’m honored that one of my articles is among them. It discusses the importance of focusing on high-quality mentoring and sponsorship to promote inclusion as well as diversity. The article also discusses cross-gender mentoring and sponsorship in the wake of #MeToo, and describes some specific initiatives that are showing promising results.
I’m honored to be featured in this interview for the International Mentoring Association.
I presented a webinar on Mentoring & Sponsorship: The Key to Gender Diversity in Leadership” for Chronus, a mentoring software company. The recording and slides are available here.
If you missed it earlier, ABA Journal’s Tech Monthly has republished my discussion of modern mentoring with Ari Kaplan.
Delighted that my discussion with Ari Kaplan about mentoring was featured in the ABA Journal: Mentoring in the legal profession has had to adapt to a changing world The article is an excerpt from my interview with Ari for his series, Reinventing Professionals, where you can hear the complete interview and podcast.
Today is the second session in this Bar Association of San Francisco program designed to help law firms plan for and manage senior partner retirement and succession.
I will be speaking at the Center for Legal Inclusiveness Summit in Denver on May, 2018. The topic will be “Innovations in Mentoring that Foster Diversity & Inclusion.”
I am delighted to be featured and interviewed as an Editorial Board Member in the April 2018 issue of Modern Legal Practice, a journal published by Globe Law and Business.
I will be a faculty expert at the Managing Partner Forum 2018 Leadership Conference in Atlanta May 2-3, 2018.
The 2018 NALP Annual Education Conference will take place April 24-27 in Hollywood, FL. I will speak on April 26 about “Mentoring for D&I: New Models, New Approaches, New Success.”