@LadyLawyerDiary: Helping women in the post-#MeToo world

One of the scenes in the trailer for the RBG biopic “On the Basis of Sex” is of Harvard Law School Dean Erwin Griswold—played by Sam Waterston— having dinner with the incoming class of students. He says, “Ladies, let’s go around the table and report . . . why you’re occupying a place that could have gone to a man.” If you’ve seen “Legally Blonde,” I’m sure you remember the scene where Harvard Law School’s admissions committee is watching Elle Woods’s unconventional admissions video. When the scene shows the makeup of the committee, you—the viewer—see something historically stereotypical: Older white males. There’s a reason law school has been described as a boys’ club. Look at the enrollment numbers, by gender, compiled by the ABA since 1947. That first year of collecting data showed that men made up 96.5 percent of the first-year enrollment in law schools across…

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