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Mobilizing Your Firm for the Millennial Generation
Recruiting, retaining, compensating and motivating the next generation of law firm leaders |
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| Date: 18 Sep 2008 Location: AMA Executive Conference Center NYC, New York, NY, United States of America Event Type: Masterclass Request More Information |
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Description Managing Partner Magazine presents: TALENT STRATEGIES FOR LAW FIRM LEADERS: Recruiting, retaining, compensating and motivating the next generation of law firm leaders September 18, 2008 Why You Need to Attend This Master Class The leading edge of the Millennial Generation is entering the workplace and their impact cannot be ignored. Born approximately between 1982 and 2002, they are ethnically diverse — as large as or larger than the Baby Boomer generation and have never known a world without computers, cell phones, video games or iPods. Research shows that 43 percent of associates leave their firms within the first three years and that number may be escalating with the Millennials. How can law firms harness their talent and help train the next generation of law firm leaders? Millennials bring to the legal profession their technological expertise, We hope you will join us for this highly-interactive master class which will uncover and identify the elements that motivate this generation as well as teach you how to put the tools in place to reduce attrition rates and begin building long-term and financially beneficial relationships with your This master class will be facilitated by: Lauren Stiller Rikleen, Executive Director, Bowditch Institute for Women's Success and Judith Finer Freedman, M.Ed.
Lauren Stiller Rikleen, Esq., the Executive Lauren’s background includes extraordinary focus on issues relating to the advancement of women in the profession. As the former President of the Boston Bar Association, Lauren established the Task-Force on Professional Challenges and Family Needs which produced a report entitled: Facing the Grail – Confronting the Costs of Work/Family Imbalance - a report which received national attention for its in-depth analysis of the cost of attrition in law firms. Following her BBA presidency, Lauren helped establish and served as co-chair of the Boston Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Work/Family, where she continues to be actively involved. Lauren is a founding member of the Equality Commission, created in 2004, to analyze the link between the relative lack of women in leadership positions in the law, the growing rate of attrition, and the demands of law firm practice. The founding members worked closely with the MIT Workplace Center to create a survey which would track the movement of women and men in Massachusetts law firms between 2001 and 2005. The resulting path-breaking study was conducted and issued by the MIT Workplace Center: Women Lawyers and Obstacles to Leadership. Lauren’s prior work with the MIT Workplace Center included a presentation addressing the intersection of law firm workplace demands and their impact on the lives of families. This presentation, From Here to Flexibility in Law Firms: Can It Be Done, was developed into a Working Paper for the MIT Workplace Center website. Lauren has also worked with the MIT Workplace Center in their efforts to pass legislation to create the Massachusetts Work-Family Council. In 2005, Lauren was appointed by the president of the American Bar Association to serve as one of the twelve members of the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession. She serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus and is also a founding member of the Council for Women of Boston College, an organization dedicated to furthering the role of women as active leaders and participants at Boston College. Among her many honors, Lauren is the recipient of the 2007 Barbara Gray Humanitarian Award from Voices Against Violence, the Boston College 2004 Alumni Award for Excellence in Law, the Boston College Law School 75th Anniversary Alumni Award medal, and the 2005 Lelia J. Robinson Award from the Women’s Bar Association of Massachusetts. Within her community, Lauren chairs the Women’s Leadership Council of the United Way of Tri-County. She is the first woman to have served as Chair of the MetroWest Chamber of Commerce. In 1997, the Chamber named her “Business Leader of the Year” and also granted her the 2001 Athena Award for professional excellence. Other community and professional involvements include serving as a member of the Board of Trustees of Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Environmental League of Massachusetts, which she chaired for six years. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Boston Bar Foundation, and is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Lauren is a frequent speaker at programs addressing women, workplace issues and the Millennial Generation.
Judith Finer Freedman, M. Ed., is a work-life consultant who researches and lectures on the dynamics of work-life effectiveness, generational diversity, mentoring and gender bias. She founded The Balanced Worker Project™ where senior corporate managers, professional service firm partners, seasoned workers, new hires and graduate students (particularly Law and MBA) develop solutions to the challenges of work and life demands and cross-generational differences at work. The Balanced Worker Project™ also specializes in programming for the legal profession with particular emphasis on initiatives for senior partners on generational diversity and mentoring and for associates on work-life effectiveness and generational differences. Some of the satisfied clients of The Balanced Worker Project include Georgetown University Law Center, Columbia Women in Business (CWIB), Cassels, Brock & Blackwell LLP, The University of Texas School of Law, The University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Boston College Center for Work and Family, New England Work and Family Association (NEWFA) and Business and Professional Women Foundation of Washington D.C. The Balanced Worker Project™ was chosen as a “Promising Practice” by the A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Judith earned her Bachelor’s degree in Advertising from the University of Texas at Austin and her Master’s degrees in Advertising from Northwestern University and in Counseling Psychology from The University of Toronto. She expects to receive her doctorate in Counseling Psychology from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at The University of Toronto in the 2008/2009 academic year. Her doctoral research involves a qualitative study of the dynamics of flexible workplace policies. Most importantly, she is a working mother with three children and identifies with parents on the issue of work-life balance. Judith has 25 years of marketing and human resource experience in the U.S. and Canada. She has worked as a Career Counselor and Coach, Marketing Manager, Human Resource Specialist in Succession Planning, Organizational Development Strategist, University Lecturer and Advertising and Public Relations Account Manager with multi-national companies and organizations such as: The Coca-Cola Company (U.S. and Canada)
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