Benesch is pleased to announce that the firm has been named the 2011-2012 Ohio Women’s Bar Association (OWBA) Family Friendly Award recipient. Established in 2003, the Family Friendly Award honors those legal employers in Ohio that best exemplify a commitment to work-life balance arrangements and assure that lawyers can take care of their families and [...]
Andi M. Metzel, a partner in Benesch’s Indianapolis office, has been elected Vice Chair of the Indiana State Employees’ Appeals Commission (SEAC). She will serve a one-year term in this position before becoming eligible to serve as the SEAC Chair in 2013. SEAC is an independent commission with statutory authority to hear or investigate certain [...]
Earlier this month, Wal-Mart’s Sam’s Club appointed Rosalind Brewer as its chief executive officer. Brewer will be the first woman and first African-American to lead a business unit of Wal-Mart. Not new to blazing a path for women in business, Brewer was the first chairperson of the Wal-Mart’s President’s Council of Global Women Leaders, is [...]
Benesch is pleased to announce that Stephanie S. Penninger has been accepted into the inaugural class of the Indiana State Bar Association Leadership Development Academy. The ISBA Leadership Development Academy was created to establish a leadership forum to empower and develop lawyers to be informed, committed and involved so that they may fill significant leadership [...]
A recent article by Forbes Magazine, “What Women Can Tell Us About Money””, highlights the differences between investment strategies undertaken by men and women. It notes that women tend to seek more advice before investing and prioritize slow and steady growth over more risky investments. As a result, women investors tend to have a higher [...]
A recent study published in PLoS One, and highlighted in a New York Times article, suggests that wearing makeup increases other people’s perception of a woman’s competence. The study judged how individuals’ reacted to women both barefaced and with makeup when given both an opportunity for a snap second glance and a longer inspection – [...]
On September 22, 2011, Benesch attorneys’ and clients attended the Ninth Annual Stepping Out in Style event to benefit Dress for Success in Indianapolis. Benesch was a proud sponsor of the event which featured fashion, food, and networking in support of a great cause. The mission of Dress for Success “is to promote the economic [...]
What Women Lawyers Really Think of Each Other We asked who they’d rather work with—men or women. The answers were surprising By Stephanie Francis Ward, ABA Journal News Now Would women lawyers prefer to work with men or other women? The answer may depend on the age of the female lawyer you’re asking, an ABA [...]
On October 5 and 6, 2011, the Indianapolis Bar Association’s Women in the Law Division will host a Symposium at the Crowne Plaza in downtown Indianapolis. The event will consist of a dinner and reception on October 5 and a day of continuing legal education seminars on October 6. The Honorable Margaret Robb, Indiana Court [...]
According to a report published by LinkedIn comparing habits of men and women users of its website, men are more savvy at using LinkedIn to advance their careers. LinkedIn defines “savviness” as “the ratio of connections that men have to the connections that women have and the ratio of male members on LinkedIn to female [...]
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