Hear from Kiley Wong who is a partner at Sloane, Offer, Weber and Dern, LLP, a boutique entertainment law firm based in Los Angeles, where she represents actors, writers, and directors in a wide array of entertainment deals. She got her J.D. from U.C. Berkeley School of Law and her B.A. from Amherst College.
Although more than half of all law school graduates are women, the number of women in senior leadership roles at U.S. law firms is far less than half – even with the number slowly edging up in recent years. About 22% of all equity partners were female in 2020, according to the National Association of Women Lawyers.