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Why Women Leave Law Firms, And What Anusia Gillespie Hopes To Do About It

“Who had Eminem on the first album? / Who had Kanye saying, ‘She a problem’? / Who came in the game, made her own column?”— Nicki Minaj

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Anusia Gillespie, Banava Co. Founder

Anusia Gillespie, founder and principal consultant of Banava Consulting, recently wrote an article for Law360 titled The Horrible Conflict Between Biology And Women Attorneys. In her article, she cites the top two reasons why attorneys leave their law firms: (1) unsustainable billable hours and work/life considerations, and (2) a limiting culture.

Do you agree?

Gillespie was born and raised in Marblehead, a small town in the North Shore region outside Boston. It didn’t take very long for her to know that she wanted to be involved with the legal profession in some way, shape, or form. Continue Reading…

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America, did Aylan Kurdi die in vain?

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A little more than a year ago, the Dallas Morning News ran a picture of a drowned 3-year-old Syrian boy who washed up on the beach. The photo accompanied a column I had written about the rhetoric of the recent presidential campaigns. I couldn’t help but think about how our national political rhetoric might be causing waves of international consequence. At the very least, I hoped 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi did not die in vain.

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For Most Law Students, Will The Value Of A Law Degree Exceed Its Cost?

“Cause, see, they call me a menace and if the shoe fits I’ll wear it /
But if it don’t then y’all swallow the truth, grin, and bear it.” – Eminem

scales-money-vs-diploma-law-degree-law-school-300x167Law school nationwide enrollment has dropped 27.7 percent (52,488 to 37,924) from 2010 to 2014. Last year, Emory tax law professor Dorothy Brown wrote a Washington Post article titled “Law schools are in a death spiral,” detailing just how dire recent statistics have been. Last January, TaxProf Blog Editor Paul Caron wrote:

First-year enrollments have plunged almost 28 percent since 2010 and stand at their lowest level since 1973, according to the American Bar Association. Making matters worse, there are 53 more law schools now than there were then.

‘This continued decrease in student demand is consistent with our belief that the legal industry is experiencing a fundamental shift rather than a cyclical trend,’ Susan Fitzgerald, a higher education analyst at Moody’s Investors Service, said in a January report titled ‘No Relief in Sight.’

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