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Why don't more women make it to equity partner status in BigLaw?

Posted by Kaitlin Ugolik on Monday, April 21, 2014,
The legal trade publication I work for, Law360, is in the midst of a series about women in law based on some data we gathered over the last few months. The data, as you might expect, is not super encouraging if you are hoping for gender parity in one of the nation's most lucrative and powerful industries.

I can't give too much away here (that's what people buy subscriptions for!) but I wanted to quickly make note of something I discovered about the uphill battle to achieving equity partnership...

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Journalism After Snowden

Posted by Kaitlin Ugolik on Saturday, February 1, 2014,
On Thursday night, I headed up to Columbia after work for the J School's Journalism After Snowden panel. It was the inaugural event in what, according to Tow Center for Digital Journalism leader Emily Bell, will be a year-long project aimed at considering how journalism has changed in the wake of Edward Snowden's leaks and the media's coverage of them. Bell also mentioned that the Tow Center is working on new tools to help investigative journalists with stories like this one.

The panel include...

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