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Recruitment | Advancement | Retention Guidance From Within: Katten’s
Women’s Leadership Forum Launches
National Mentoring Panel
Katten’s Women’s Leadership Forum (WLF) recently launched the
National Mentoring Panel, which provides our women attorneys with
direct access to female role models who provide guidance on professional
development, work-life balance and other areas regarding navigating the
various paths to success at Katten.
Our WLF, with the support of firm while maintaining work-life balance and short-term
leadership, strongly believes that our part-time status, networking and business building
women colleagues can greatly benefit strategies, and firm policies. Given that Laura has
from shared experiences as both mentee and mentor spent her career of more than 25 years at Katten
in their pursuit of career advancement. The panel since she was a summer associate while having two
consists of 13 successful women partners who children, she has valuable institutional knowledge
are recognized as leaders in their industries with and unique insights to share.
backgrounds that exemplify the strong character
and commitment to achieving success and creating Lily Chinn’s career path was different. She spent
opportunities within their own careers. Our the first eight years of her career as a trial attorney
mentors are income and capital partners and many at the US Department of Justice, litigating civil
serve in leadership positions, including as Executive and criminal cases around the country for the
Committee members, National Compensation Environmental Defense Section and the Computer
Committee members, department chairs and Crimes and Intellectual Property Section. Lily left
practice group heads. Many have raised families and the government sector and worked for another law
several have taken advantage of the firm’s reduced- firm before coming to Katten more than two years
time and flex-time options. All are enthusiastic ago as a partner in the Environmental and Workplace
to share their time and experiences and serve as
sounding boards on a variety of issues. Becky Laura
Lindahl Keidan Martin
A Few Mentor Highlights
CHARLOTTE CHICAGO
Laura Keidan Martin, head of the WLF, is also head
of our Health Care practice, a member of the firm’s
Board of Directors and Executive Committee, and
has served on the Income Partner Compensation
Committee, Capital Partner Compensation
Committee and Capital Partner Selection Committee.
As part of the Mentoring Panel, she provides insight
and guidance on navigating the track to partnership
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