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Description: As we move towards what we believe to be a post-pandemic era, the practice of law is very different today than many of us imagined it could be. Before the pandemic, women typically faced greater barriers to partnership and leadership than their male colleagues. Today, as offices reopen, we have a unique opportunity to refocus and reimagine the structures and culture of legal organizations. We are facing such core questions as, how will employer policies affect women, especially women with children, women of color and women from various cultures? Why are so many women lawyers experiencing burnout and what strategies can leaders implement to minimize the impact? What can women do individually and together to enhance retention and advance? Our speakers will present comprehensive research on these issues and will share their insights and experiences.
Dr. Sharon Meit Abrahams is a legal talent development expert with over 25 years of experience in success coaching for attorneys and executing high impact programs for law firms. She has created and implemented firm wide initiatives that help attorneys maximize their productivity while maintaining engagement. When individuals produce, a firm increases its profitability. As a talent development leader, she has handled every aspect of an attorney’s firm life from onboarding and integration, through mentoring and training to succession planning and exit interviews.
Dr. Abrahams has published three books with the American Bar Association and regularly publishes articles for Thomson Reuters and American Legal Media. Known for engaging and educational programs, Dr. Abrahams is a sought-after keynote speaker, program facilitator and law firm advisor.
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Roberta (“Bobbi”) Liebenberg is a senior partner at Fine, Kapan and Black in Philadelphia and also a principal in The Red Bee Group, a women-owned consulting group that uses data-based strategies to attain DEI objectives. She focuses her practice on antitrust, class actions, and complex commercial litigation, and has been appointed by courts to represent classes in many class actions. She is now Lead Counsel for the End Payer Class in the Generic Pharmaceuticals Pricing Antitrust Litigation, which is the largest pending antitrust MDL in the country. She was also one of trial counsel for the class in the Urethanes Antitrust Litigation, where a $1.06 billion judgment was entered against Dow Chemical Company after a four-week jury trial. That was the largest price-fixing judgment ever. The judgment was affirmed by the Tenth Circuit and, during Dow’s appeal to the Supreme Court, it settled for $835 million, the most ever obtained from a single defendant in a price-fixing case. She has also defended Fortune 500 companies, including Southwest Airlines, and Temple University in class actions and other complex commercial litigation.
She has written and spoken extensively about many issues of importance to women lawyers and has chaired numerous organizations devoted to gender equality in the profession, including the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, the ABA Gender Equity Task Force, the ABA Presidential Initiative on Achieving Long Term Careers for Women in Law, DirectWomen (the only organization devoted to increasing the number of women attorneys on corporate boards), the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Bar Associations’ respective committees on women in the profession, and the Pennsylvania Interbranch Commission for Gender, Racial and Ethnic Fairness. She has received many awards and honors, including induction into the American Antitrust Institute Private Enforcement Hall of Fame, the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award from the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, the Lynette Norton Award from the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the Sandra Day O'Connor Award from the Philadelphia Bar Association, and the Florence K. Murray Award from the National Association of Women Judges. She was named by former Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell as a "Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania,” and The National Law Journal named her as one of the “50 Most Influential Women Lawyers in America” and also one of the “Elite Women of the Plaintiffs’ Bar.”
Stephanie A. Scharf is founding partner of Scharf Banks Marmor, LLC, a prominent women-owned law firm that represents local, national and global businesses. Specializing in complex litigation and appeals, Stephanie and the firm have been profiled for the "unique quality of their work" and for "Work at a Very High Level." A frequent author and CLE speaker, most recently Stephanie has been Lead Editor of the PLI treatise, Product Liability: Current Law, Strategy and Best Practices. She has been named a Leading Lawyer, Best Lawyer, Super Lawyer, one of the "500 Leading Litigators in America," and is Martindale-Hubbell AV-rated.
In addition to her law practice, Stephanie is a Founding Principal of The Red Bee Group, LLC, https://www.theredbeegroup.com/, a consulting firm that helps businesses, organizations and law firms achieve their goals for growth and innovation using data-based strategies with diverse and inclusive solutions.
Stephanie received a Ph.D. in Behavioral Sciences and a J.D. from the University of Chicago. She frequently combines her skills in data analytics to create cutting edge research on issues of diversity and inclusion. Stephanie founded and conducted the NAWL Annual Survey of Women in Law Firms (2006-2014); and the first national survey of women's initiatives in law firms, The Strategy, Structure and Scope of Women's Initiatives in Law Firms (2012). With co-author Roberta Liebenberg, Stephanie conducted the seminal survey of women as lead counsel in litigation, First Chairs at Trial: More Women Need Seats at the Table (2015); and a national survey of experienced women lawyers, Walking Out the Door: The Facts, Figures and Future of Experienced Women in Private Practice (2019). Most recently, Stephanie and Roberta reported on the largest survey of the legal profession ever conducted by the American Bar Association, which includes data-based best practices for firms, organizations, and individual lawyers to achieve long-term success. Practicing Law in the Pandemic and Moving Forward: Results and Best Practices from a Nationwide Survey of the Legal Profession (April 2021).
Stephanie was 2017-2020 Chair of the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession; is a member of the Advisory Board of DirectWomen; is a former President of the National Association of Women Lawyers (2004- 2005); and was Special Advisor to the American Bar Association's Presidential Commission on Diversity and Inclusion.
Stephanie has received many awards in recognition of her work for advancing women in the law, including The Coalition of Women’s Initiatives in Law Inspiration Award (2020); The Women’s Bar Association of Illinois Myra Bradwell Award (2018); the National Association of Women Lawyers Public Service Award (2017); the Chicago Bar Association Alliance for Women Founder’s Award (2015); the National Law Journal Two Steps Forward Award (2014).
 | | Practice Areas: | | Employment Law | | | Online Media Type: | | Audio | | | Production Date: | | 11/04/2021 | | | Level: | | Intermediate | | | Category: | | Standard | | | Duration: | | 1 Hours, 1 Minutes | | | Online Format: | | On Demand | | | Course Type: | | Public |
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| | • | Dr. Sharon Meit Abrahams - Legal Talent Advisors, LLC | | • | Roberta Liebenberg, Esq. - Fine, Kapan and Black, R.P.C. | | • | Stephanie Scharf - Partner, Scharf Banks Marmor LLC |
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