Women's Initiative's Mission
The mission of the EpsteinBeckerGreen Women's Initiative is to enhance the careers of professional women by providing opportunities both inside and outside the office to network, share information, acquire skills, and develop rewarding professional relationships.
Nearly half of EBG's professionals are women, and women owners play an active role in the management of the Firm.
About EpsteinBeckerGreen and the Women's Initiative
For more than 35 years, EpsteinBeckerGreen has been committed to building on the numbers of women and minority attorneys within our 11 offices and throughout the U.S. legal profession. We are pleased that our efforts are achieving notable results. In 2009, The American Lawyer conducted its first "Women in Law Firms" study and ranked EpsteinBeckerGreen 8th in the nation among all of the 200 largest firms for its percentage of women attorneys. The American Lawyer article also ranked EBG among the top 10 firms with the highest percentage of women partners. In fact, EpsteinBeckerGreen is one of only four law firms to make the top 20 lists for the number of women attorneys in the 2009 "Women in Law Firms" study and the number of minority attorneys in the Minority Law Journal's 2009 "Diversity Scorecard." Additionally, EpsteinBeckerGreen was ranked among the Top 20 law firms in the nation for the high representation of women among its partners, according to The National Law Journal's 2009 survey of the 250 largest U.S. law firms.
EpsteinBeckerGreen recognizes the importance of women to business and professional communities. Through a variety of sponsorships and programs, the Firm strives to advance the careers of women. For example, EpsteinBeckerGreen is a founding sponsor of the Women Business Leaders of the U.S. Health Care Industry Foundation, an organization whose goal is to help senior executive women in the health care industry improve their businesses and continue to grow professionally. To encourage women to share their views on, and experiences with, business development, networking, mentoring, and work/life balance issues, we created the Executive Women's Networking Blog.
Additionally, the Women's Initiative of EpsteinBeckerGreen, which the Firm launched in 2002, has been helping women develop their careers by hosting events that educate, entertain, and facilitate networking with other women professionals. For instance, we have held successful:
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Lectures
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Golf clinics
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Media skills workshops
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Fashion events
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Wine tastings
The Women's Initiative has received overwhelmingly positive participant feedback about these events, as well as national press coverage.
Our speaker series has presented lectures by accomplished women leaders and innovators, such as Victoria Medvec, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Center for Executive Women, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University; Marianne J. Legato, M.D., F.A.C.P., Founder/Director of the Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbia University, and an internationally-recognized specialist and author; and Patricia Roos, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Women and Work, Rutgers University.
The Women's Initiative creates opportunities for women professionals to learn, connect, and grow. It sets the scene for great women to accomplish great things. They say it's who you know – and we know outstanding women.
For more information, please contact one of the following Firm Members:
We felt it would be wonderful to create a program that would give women an opportunity to meet each other in an informal setting conducive to conversation and networking, as well as business and professional development.
Maxine Neuhauser, EpsteinBeckerGreen
The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel
Frances M. Green
212-351-4654
fgreen@ebglaw.com
Joan A. Disler
973-639-8298
jdisler@ebglaw.com
Maxine Neuhauser
973-639-8269
mneuhauser@ebglaw.com