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Rafte & Company to Explore Best Practices in Retaining Female Attorneys at Partner’s Breakfast Roundtable - March 2008
HOUSTON, March 31, 2008 – One of the biggest challenges faced by Houston law firms is on the agenda next month as Rafte & Company (www.rafte.com) hosts its upcoming Partner’s Breakfast Roundtable: “How to Improve Retention of Female Attorneys.” Law firm managing partners identified the subject of retaining female attorneys as a priority for 2008. The National Association for Law Placement’s Directory of Legal Employers indicates that women account for more than 43 percent of associates at law firm offices in Houston, but they comprise less than 18 percent of equity partners.
“The hurdles that women face in their legal careers tend to be overlooked and misunderstood, so we anticipate a valuable exchange of information and ideas,” said Dena Rafte, founder and president of Rafte & Company. “This is a highly complex challenge rooted in the very way law firms operate, including everything from compensation practices to reliance on billable hours.”
