Bloomberg Law
Sept. 19, 2017, 11:05 AM UTC

Why Women Leave Big Law To Start Their Own Firms

Stephanie Russell-Kraft

Peggy McCausland was tired of her firm’s networking events.

The potential clientele she wanted to woo — business women — weren’t showing up, she said. So McCausland conceived her own networking event that would draw them — golf lessons, catered meals and shop talk — and asked for the necessary marketing funds. She was a partner at the firm, Blank Rome, after all.

“The response I got from [a senior partner] was, ‘Where are you going to find a golf course that’s gonna let a bunch of amateur women come hack it to bits?’” McCausland recalled ten years later. She did not call out Blank Rome by name during her interview. ...

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