Women Law Partners Weigh in on How to Close the Pay Equity Gap

Editor’s Note: In our final news story for our Big Law & Pay Equity series, Meghan Tribe speaks with current and former women law partners about how firms can go about closing the pay equity gap with the use of third-party audits, by focusing performance reviews more on work product than personalities, and through other measures.

“I was a star associate, star partner,” said Brenda Feis, a former Seyfarth Shaw partner who left the firm and switched sides to represent employees suing for discrimination at her own boutique employment law firm, Feis Goldy. “But once I had kids—even though ...