A DVA N C I N G WO M E N I N T H E L EG A L P RO F E S S I O N

ED U C AT I ON I NNOVAT I ON

Debbie Ellingboe | Partner and Business Lit igation Group Leader Gina Kastel | Vice Chair and Chief Operating Partner

Practice Management Profiles provide matter managers with real-time metrics on diversity in legal project staffing and work allocation.

Diversity Lab’s Women in Law Hackathon brings together women law firm thought leaders to solve the gender gap.

Flexible Schedule Options ensure life outside the office doesn’t impact professional advancement opportunities.

Multiple Career Tracks support both those with the career goal of partnership and those with alternate career goals.

Nominating Committee Composition rotates annually and is intentionally diverse, resulting in greater diversity among leadership.

Faegre Baker Daniels’ Women’s Forum for Achievement ensures Faegre Baker Daniels is a place where women develop their careers, practices and networks.

Bi-monthly women-focused professional development programsg Business development programming anchored in real life

g Access to firm leadership: a two-way conversation

g Face-to-face and Dutch Lunch programming focuses on relationship development

Executive Leadership Workshops in 2015-16 benefited more than 400 women executives nationally with concrete, actionable practices for reaching the next level of leadership

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" Our commitment to advancing women drives FaegreBD to develop creative solutions and take a multifaceted approach to closing the gender gap."

" FaegreBD’s in-house counsel roundtables, featuring women f irm alumni, give women lit igators a safe place to ask questions, demystify business development and help women succeed."

PA RTN E R S H I P L E AD E R S H I P

Peggy Steif Abram | Partner and NAWL Executive Board Member Andrea Roberts Pierson | Partner

CONTACT US

Anne RicchiutoPartner and Co-Chair, Women’s Forum for Achievement

+1 317 237 1420 anne.ricchiuto@FaegreBD.com

Lauren BartaPartner and Co-Chair, Women’s Forum for Achievement

+1 612 766 7505 lauren.barta@FaegreBD.com

M A N S F I E L D C E R T I F I C AT I O N A N D C E R T I F I C AT I O N P L U SDiversity Lab, 2018 recognized for considering at least 30 percent women and attorneys of color for certain leadership and governance roles, partner promotions and senior lateral positions and for achieving at least 30 percent women and minority lawyer representation in certain leadership roles

G O L D S TA N D A R D C E R T I F I C AT I O NWomen in Law Empowerment Forum (WILEF), 2015-19, 31 firms in AmLaw 200 recognized for appointing women into top leadership roles that impact firm management and compensation

5 0 B E S T L A W F I R M S F O R W O M E NWorking Mother and Flex-Time Lawyers, 2011-19, recognized for innovative practices in retaining and promoting women lawyers

T H E 1 0 0 B E S T L A W F I R M S F O R F E M A L E AT T O R N E Y SLaw360, 2015-19, recognized for high female representation at the partner and non-partner levelsE XC E L L E N C E

year term on the National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL) executive board

partner organizations to advance women in law

Client partnerships to support the mutual growth and development of female professionals

partner organizations to advance women in business

49 6 WOMEN

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100+ WOMEN PARTNERS28.5% of partnership compared to 22.07% legal industry average

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PARTNERCLASS

47% WOMENonly 25% of firms include awoman on their managing

committee as of 2012

38%WOMEN

MANAGEMENTBOARD MEMBERS

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25%

60%

" NAWL provides a national platform for people with shared passion for closing the gender gap. It has been a great honor to represent FaegreBD and participate in NAWL’s mission of advancing women in the legal profession."

" I ’ve had amazing opportunities to work on and lead major MDLs for large medical device manufacturers – made possible by robust support at every level of the f irm."