About the CWI Women’s NetworkInvest in yourself. Join the CWI Women Lawyers Network.
The CWI Women Lawyers Network is a community where women lawyers and other professionals can obtain the resources, connections and opportunities they need to propel their careers forward and achieve their goals, dreams and ambitions. The CWI Network is one of the best investments you can make in yourself and your career. CWI Member Benefits The CWI Network has members at both the national and local level. All of our members have access to our national network of women, our online discussion and resource forums, and our teleclasses and tele-workshops. Our local members (currently in New York City, with more cities to follow) can also connect through in-person events.
Member benefits include:
To learn about our membership levels or to join now, please click here.
Who Should Join Our Network is for any woman who wants to connect with other motivated, talented women. It is designed for women at all stages of their careers, whether you are climbing the ladder or already at the top, are thinking about an employer or career change, have started your own practice or business, or are reentering the workforce. Our professional development offerings are targeted to women lawyers, but our resources and events are helpful to other legal professionals, women who are not currently practicing, and women from various sectors, especially professional services industries. To learn about our membership levels or to join now, please click here.
The Story Behind the CWI Women’s Network The CWI Women’s Network was founded in January 2007 with the goal of building a community where professional women could connect and network, share experiences and expertise, and obtain targeted career development and support. In January 2008, CWI launched its Women Lawyers Network and expanded its offerings, bringing essential career resources, information and networking opportunities to women lawyers and other professionals through in-person events (currently held in New York City), teleclasses and tele-workshops, and online networking and discussion forums. The reason we created the CWI Women Lawyers Network and began targeting women lawyers in early 2008 was to address what we, as lawyers ourselves, saw as an urgent need in the legal community at both the institutional and individual level. Legal employers, and especially large law firms, often lag far behind their corporate counterparts in terms of career development initiatives and professional development training. At the individual level, the demands of the legal profession leave lawyers with scarce free time to strategically plan for their career or seek out the networks, mentors and other resources they need to reach the next level of their career. As a result, we knew so many lawyers, and especially women, who felt they didn’t have control over their careers or development, and their employers weren’t giving them the resources – the networks, mentors and training – they needed to succeed. We wanted to change all of that. We created the CWI Women Lawyers Network, the first of its kind in the legal profession, to provide a community where women could obtain targeted career development and support, have access to the resources and networking opportunities they needed, and become part of a community that is invested in them, in their professional development and success. Our goal is to help more women succeed and achieve greater fulfillment in their careers – whether they want to reach the top of firms, transition into the government or non-profit sector, become leaders within the profession or leave the profession entirely. Membership in the CWI Women Lawyers Network is not limited to lawyers and other legal professionals. We actively encourage the membership of any woman who wants to become part of a network dedicated to the support, development and advancement of women professionals. We believe that membership in the CWI Network can be a tremendous benefit to women from a variety of industries, especially those in the professional services sectors, and we have members from business, finance, consulting and accounting industries, to name a few. Through the CWI Women Lawyers Network, smart, driven professional women at all stages of their careers can come together, collaborate and share their knowledge and expertise, and develop meaningful relationships while expanding their professional network and furthering their career development and growth. To learn about our membership levels or to join now, please click here. |
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