By
Corinne Ramey
Just a quarter of lawyers who have leadership roles in New York state
and federal courtrooms are women, according to a new analysis by the
New York State Bar Association.
The gender discrepancy differed
significantly between attorneys representing public entities, such as
state or federal government, and those representing private parties.
Women
accounted for 38.2% of lawyers representing the public, but only 19.4%
of lawyers representing private parties, according to the report, by the
association’s Commercial and Federal Litigation Section.
Former
U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin, who worked on the study, said the
results confirmed what she had long observed from the bench.
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Source: The Wall Street Journal (via The Empire Report)
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