Fordham Law's Leadership Academy For Women In law

Special Counsel and Associate General Counsel Gillian Groarke Burns will be speaking at Fordham Law's Leadership Academy For Women In Law fall speaker series. 

Panel topic:

Family, Flexibility, and Flight—Keeping Women Lawyers in the Profession

  • Finding Balance: Work, Family, Life
  • What Do You Want? Being Motivated by Desire—Not Fear
  • Flexible Arrangements: The Art of the Possible
  • Don’t Leave Before You Leave


This weekly online program will empower women lawyers to fulfill their leadership potential, learn important leadership skills and strategies, and advance their careers and the profession as a whole. The program will also provide men with important insights and tools to understand and develop their role as allies. They will join a network of professionals committed to advancing women’s leadership in law and move the profession forward inclusively.