Bloomberg Law
May 21, 2018, 8:39 PM UTC

Women See No Gains as Plaintiffs-Side Complex Case Leaders

Julie Steinberg

Women are still much less likely than men to run the biggest federal cases for plaintiffs, despite the recent focus on gender diversity in the legal profession.

Women’s appointments to plaintiff-side leadership roles in federal multidistrict litigation decreased slightly from a peak in 2015, new research shows.

Roughly 24 percent of leadership roles went to women in 2016 and 2017, Dana Alvare found. Alvare is a researcher with the Sheller Center for Social Justice at the Temple University Beasley School of Law, Philadelphia.

Women were appointed to nearly 28 percent of the lead spots in 2015, according to Alvare, who ...

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