Women Plaintiffs Lawyers Fight to End MDL ‘Boys Club’

GA-Curated for you from the National Law Journal, Authored by Meredith Hobbs:

“Alvare analyzed 145 cases with 102 male judges and 43 female judges making appointments—and found that men were five times more likely than women to be appointed to a lead counsel spot, regardless of the gender of the judge. The subject matter of the cases didn’t make much difference either, she said.

…While only half of the cases had women among the lead counsel, fully 98 percent had men in those positions.” (Emphasis added.)

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