Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Fordham Law Review

Abstract

This is an essay on hierarchy, humanism and change. It is inspired by the insightful essay of Judge Judith S. Kaye, Women Lawyers in Big Firms: A Study in Progress Toward Gender Equality. Women, people of color and others historically denied a place on the upward track of the traditional hierarchies in the practice of law, have today, more than ever before, the chance to succeed on merit. Moreover, we have a unique opportunity to rehumanize an increasingly specialized, technocratic, compartmentalized and sometimes unresponsive profession. But we also face the dual pitfalls of being swept up the ladder as yet another homogeneous body in the cold machinery of the law, or of being swept out of the cadre of serious professionals, in despair of finding a home in the law harmonious with our selves. Women before me have shed the constraint of speaking only "like a lawyer." In this tradition, I will tell a part of my own story; I will speak of women and law school, women and law firms, women and scholarship, and the future of our law students.

First Page

955

Volume

57

Publication Date

1989

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