Commission on Women in the Profession
As a voice for women lawyers, the Commission helps forge a better profession that ensures that women have equal opportunities for professional growth and advancement commensurate with their male counterparts. Drawing upon the expertise and diverse backgrounds of its twelve members who are appointed by the ABA President, the Commission develops programs, policies and publications to advance and assist women in public and private practice, the judiciary, and academia.

The Commission also produces Perspectives magazine which covers political and legal developments affecting women in the legal community, and sponsors the annual Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Awards Luncheon. Other important projects include the Women of Color Research Initiative, which studies the career movements of women of color in law firms; and the Women in Law Leadership Academy aimed at helping young women lawyers develop career and leadership skills.

Women Rainmakers
Learning how to develop business will lead to greater control over your career. As part of the Law Practice Management Section, Women Rainmakers provides networking opportunities, a members-only resource directory, programs, publications, videotapes, and mentoring activities.

Women in IP Law
This Section of Intellectual Property Law membership offering helps facilitate communication and build professional and personal relationships for women members within the field of Intellectual Property law. IP law has been typically male dominated. There are many networking opportunities within the Section to communicate and share knowledge with other women, who are at different stages of their career and may face the same challenges you do.

Multicultural Women Attorney Network (MWAN)
A joint effort of the Commission on Racial & Ethnic Diversity and the Commission on Women in the Profession, MWAN is a network which focuses on the dual challenges of being both a woman and a minority in the legal profession. MWAN publishes "Dear Daughters, Dear Sisters", a collection of letters authored by multicultural women attorneys who graduated from law school at least 10 years ago. The letters contain advice and reflections that can guide and motivate attorneys, as well as other professionals, at any stage in their career. Other publications include "The Burdens of Both, the Privileges of Neither", which discusses the status of minority women in the legal profession.

Facts About Women and the Law
Fair Measure: Toward Effective Attorney Evaluation is a best-selling publication offered through the Commission on Women in the profession. Gain constructive guidance for your law firm on how to develop and implement an evaluation process that emphasizes objective performance criteria, eliminates bias, and recognizes the value of diversity, Lawyers and Balanced Lives: A Guide to Drafting and Implementing Workplace Policies for Lawyers explains how to make law firms "family friendly" for men and women. It includes recommended policies on parental leave, alternative work schedules, and sexual harassment.

The Woman Advocate committee of the Section of Litigation
The Committee offers the opportunity to network with other women trial lawyers and exchange information, questions or ideas on a wide variety of professional and personal issues confronting women lawyers, particularly those in a litigation practice; including alternative work styles, balancing trial work and motherhood, mentoring and perceptions of women advocates.