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Mentoring: bringing together experienced lawyers and those just starting out in the profession.
Scholarships:
University of Denver Sturm College of Law and University of Colorado School of Law
(Click here for a list of past scholarship recipients)
Preserving the History of Women Attorneys: Celebrating and preserving the history of women in Colorado's legal community, including capturing the oral histories of women who have played a key role in that history.
Project for Attorney Retention: The CWBA Foundation, with generous funding and support from the Colorado Bar Association, Faegre & Benson Foundation, and the Donnell Initiative Fund, has joined forces with the Project for Attorney Retention (“PAR”) to include Denver in a groundbreaking study of part-time law firm partnerships. For more information about PAR, a nationally recognized leader in the use and value of flexible work schedules, visit their website at www.pardc.org. Click here to read the full article recently published in the CWBA's newsletter, The Advocate.
The project will study part-time partners in law firms to identify roadblocks they face and present best-practice solutions to overcome those challenges. The study will provide best practices that law firms can use not only to develop effective policies, but also to establish fair compensation structures and practices for attorneys who want to reduce their hours and still maintain a successful and profitable relationship with their firm.
The study, to be conducted in San Francisco, Washington D.C. and Denver, CO, will involve in-depth interviews (with guarantees of confidentiality) with part-time partners. These interviews will cover professional and personal information relating to the partners’ reduced-hours arrangements, their satisfaction with their arrangements, the methods used to compensate and evaluate them, their business generation, and their service to their firms. The information will be used to develop a best practices model and report on part-time partnership that can be used nationally.
The CWBA Foundation is very proud to be part of this cutting edge effort, but we need your help. If you are a part-time partner or know of a part-time partner who would like to be contacted for this study, please contact Beth Doherty Quinn (bdq@bairdkiovsky.com) or Connie Talmage (CTalmage@coloradolawyerscommittee.org). HELP US HELP THE WOMEN LAWYERS OF COLORADO.
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