How can we #ChoosetoChallenge gender inequity for International Women’s Day 2021?

How can we #ChoosetoChallenge gender inequity for International Women’s Day 2021?

March 8 is International Women’s Day (IWD), and this year’s theme is “Choose to Challenge.”

We can all choose to challenge gender bias and inequity in the workplace and in the business of law. We can all choose to champion women and celebrate their achievements. And in the end, we will all benefit—because a more inclusive world leads to better outcomes for everyone.

In this video, four Equity Project Champions explain how we can #ChoosetoChallenge gender inequity during International Women’s Day 2021:

• Why gender diversity must remain a priority in the midst of a downturn
  
  
• How law firms can promote greater diversity in their senior ranks
  
  
• How law firm leadership can foster diversity at their firms
  
  
• How GCs can impact gender diversity at law firms and on arbitration tribunals

Participants

Megan Jones is a partner at Hausfeld based in California, with a focus on recovering damages for companies who are victims of antitrust cartels for price-fixing, tying, restraints of trade and other competition violations. With 19 years of experience in antitrust class actions, she is trusted by courts to lead large and complex antitrust cases.

Mylan Denerstein is a litigation partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Co-Chair of the Public Policy Practice Group and member of the firm's Executive Committee. She represents diverse companies confronting a wide range of legal issues in their most critical times, typically involving federal, state and municipal government agencies.

Dr. Nadine Herrmann is the Managing Partner of Quinn Emanuel’s Hamburg office and Chair of the firm's EU and German Competition Law Practice. She has broad litigation expertise, including securities/capital markets and other finance litigation, antitrust, intellectual property and other regulatory and commercial litigation at trial and appellate level.

Carolyn Lamm is a partner at White & Case in Washington, DC. She regularly serves as lead counsel in high-stakes matters, including significant international arbitrations involving international corporations and sovereign clients. She is also Chair of the ICCA Cross-Institutional Task Force on Gender Diversity in Arbitral Appointments and Proceedings. 

This video was recorded in February 2021. 

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