Women Who Left Big Law Equity Hunt Stake Ground on LinkedIn (1)

A poorly worded LinkedIn post about the travails of women in Big Law uncorked Amy Conway-Hatcher’s feelings about the profession and inadvertently sparked an uprising of women lawyers fed up with the outdated system.

A couple months after Conway-Hatcher walked away from an equity partnership, she found an American Bar Association Journal article on LinkedIn that seemed to blame women for their own barriers—such as having children—to rising through the Big Law ranks. Conway-Hatcher’s response drew praise and became a rallying point for women in law to share their own experiences, commiserate, and network, both privately ...