Our Mission
The Center for Women in Law is a national resource and champion for women lawyers, generating lasting change within the legal profession.
Our Vision
The legal profession exemplifies equality and justice for all.
Core Values
- Community. We strive to build a welcoming community to support each other, our shared mission, and our different paths.
- Integrity. We are driven to uphold the highest standards of our profession.
- Information. Information is power. We believe in empowering and educating women lawyers with the tools to advance their careers.
- Influence. Powerful women advocate for equality and work to address career challenges. Our influence will change the profession.
- Investment. We are committed to investing in future generations of women lawyers.
OUR COMMITMENT
We are committed to a legal profession that genuinely embraces equality, opportunity, and justice for all. Through community, integrity, information, influence, and investment, we empower women lawyers across all career stages, strengthen leadership pipelines and advance lasting change within the legal profession.
Strategic Objectives
We achieve the Center’s mission by convening leaders, generating ideas, and leading change.
- Empower Women Lawyers: We empower and encourage women lawyers to confidently build, navigate, and advance their careers.
- Advance Systematic Change: We serve as an impetus for systemic change in the legal profession by bringing together leaders, ideas and opportunities that advance the success of women lawyers and strengthen the legal profession as a whole.
- Support Career Pathways: We support women lawyers pursuing career success and advancement, career transitions, and leadership opportunities at all levels.
- Individual and Collective Impact: We celebrate and elevate the achievements of women lawyers while demonstrating the power of community to advance the legal field.
- Build Community and Connections: We build relationships, networks, and mentoring connections to support women lawyers, because we are stronger together.
- Develop Leadership Pipelines: We cultivate and support efforts to prepare women lawyers to lead, influence and shape the future of the profession.
Initiatives
The Center for Women in Law has had tremendous impact since its launch in 2009. Looking forward, we will further our impact to generate lasting change in the legal profession by:
- Engaging with lawyers, legal leaders, law students and supporters across all career stages, sectors, and geographic regions.
- Creating programming that supports women lawyers at all career stages, with emphasis on leadership development, career pathways, and career transition points.
- Deepening partnerships with national, regional, local and student organizations to amplify our impact.
- Maintaining a strategic approach to engagement and development that broadens participation, cultivates donors, and strengthens connections among supporters and participants.
- Expanding meaningful opportunities for supporters to contribute to, engage with and advance the Center’s mission through philanthropy, volunteerism, mentorship, and leadership.
We invite you to join us in our mission.