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Visit our timelineBlank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that the Firm has been honored in Yale Law Women’s 2018 Top Ten Female Friendly Firms Report in the category of “Leadership & Promotions: At Least 50% of Attorneys Promoted to Equity Partner in 2017 Were Women.”
Blank Rome Partners Linda Kornfeld and Stacy D. Phillips have been selected to Los Angeles Business Journal’s annual list honoring 75 of the region’s most influential women attorneys. Last month, Linda and Stacy also shared the honor of being named to the Lawdragon 500 for 2018.
In 1946, Sam Blank and Bill Rudenko—two lawyers that couldn’t get a job anywhere else in Philadelphia because large firms refused to take on Jewish applicants—founded what’s now Blank Rome.
“Our firm was founded upon a model of inclusion and diversity,” says Alan J. Hoffman, Blank Rome’s chairman and managing partner. “We’re very much committed to [that model], and we devote a lot of time, money and effort towards it.”
Blank Rome Partner Grant S. Palmer will present at The Forum of Executive Women’s 2018 Leadership Symposium, which will be held on Friday, April 13, 2018, from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at The Union League of Philadelphia.
Grant’s panel, “Step Right Up: You've Got What It Takes...To Succeed,” will discuss how women, from CEOs thinking about a corporate board position and C-suite executives eyeing the top job to professionals moving up the ladder, can “step up”—and sometimes need some coaching to “go for it” successfully.
Blank Rome Partner Victoria “Tori” Guilfoyle has been named to the Class of 2018 “40 under 40” by the Philadelphia Business Journal.
Blank Rome Partner Regina Stango Kelbon will speak at the “Building Your Path to Success: The Importance of Your Personal Network” brown bag lunch program sponsored jointly by the Turnaround Management Association Network of Women (“TMA NOW”) and the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (“IWIRC”).
Blank Rome Partners Linda Kornfeld and Stacy Phillips will each moderate a panel at California Lawyer’s upcoming Women Leadership in Law Conference.
Held on May 2, 2018, in Beverly Hills, this conference will bring together law firm and in-house practitioners to participate in insightful discussions on recent topics important to the legal profession and of interest to women leaders.
Blank Rome Partner Sophia Lee will speak on Drexel Law’s Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (“APABA-PA”) and Latin American Law Students Association (“LALSA”) Career Panel taking place Tuesday, March 27, 2018, at 5:30 p.m. in Philadelphia, PA.
The panel will discuss techniques and skills to use to find an internship; skills and performance to excel during the internship; and networking and creating connections. The discussion will also have a focus on particular challenges faced by minority students, be it race, gender, or other “labels.”
Blank Rome Partners Linda Kornfeld and Stacy D. Phillips, who are based in the Firm’s Los Angeles office, have once again been selected to the annual list of Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Lawyers in America.
Blank Rome recently announced that, effective January 1, 2019, current Litigation Department Chair Grant S. Palmer will become Managing Partner, and current Chairman and Managing Partner Alan J. Hoffman will continue his term as Chairman. News of the 2019 leadership transition received significant media attention, including:
