Pat gillette biography

Girls Leadership is thrilled to announce our latest board member, Pat Gillette!

 

Pat Gillette is one of the country’s leading experts and most sought-after speakers on gender diversity and equality. Rated as a top employment litigator and trial lawyer by Chambers and other organizations for 40 years and as a leader and rainmaker in her firms, Ms.

Gillette’s legal career focused on assisting Fortune companies with their most difficult issues and challenges. At the end of , she resigned from her firm to pursue her passion for empowering women through keynote speaking and writing. She now tours the country speaking on issues that help women advance into leadership positions in their organizations.

Pat gillette biography Some years back, Gillette bought several cases of chocolate-covered wine bottles, sight unseen, to give as holiday presents to her clients. The book also includes helpful tips from rainmakers and clients across the country. These are the skills that attract and build sustainable, rewarding client relationships. Arthur G.

Ms. Gillette was invited to join JAMS in and she now spends some of her time mediating employment cases.

Ms. Gillette has been recognized for her work to advance women in the legal profession by many organizations. She is the recipient of the ABA Margaret Brent Award, the highest honor given to women lawyers for professional achievement and for advancing the interests of women lawyers.

She has also received the ABA Golden Hammer Award, the California Women Lawyers Association’s Fay Stender Award, the Transformational Leadership Award as one of the Top Women Rainmakers, and the Barristers Association of San Francisco Award of Merit.
Ms. Gillette is the co-founder of the Opt-In Project, a nationwide initiative focused on changing the structure of law firms to increase the retention and advancement of women.

The team she co-chaired at the Hackathon created the Mansfield Rule, which has now been adopted by several law firms and corporations across the country as a means of immediately impacting the opportunities for women to advance into leadership positions.
Ms. Gillette has been a Commissioner on the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, a member of ABA’s Gender Equity Task Force, Co-Chair of the BASF No Glass Ceiling Initiative, and has served on several non-profit boards dedicated to protecting and promoting women.

She is currently a board member DirectWomen and Girls Leadership,

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Pat gillette biography wikipedia Click here to cancel reply. People are calling on firms to take action toward gender and racial diversity and create equal opportunities for all. For most of the 40 years over which Pat practiced law, she was rated as a top employment litigator and trial lawyer by Chambers and other organizations and was a leader and rainmaker in her firms, At the end of she resigned as a partner at Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe, LLP to pursue her passion for empowering women through keynote speaking and writing. Rainmakers: Born or Bred helps you to identify those seemingly intangible aspects of selling that many lawyers think are unachievable, and provides you with practical ideas to implement as you set out on your journey to improve your business development skills.

Gillette’s newest book, “Rainmakers: Born or Bred” is filled with practical tactics and strategies that can be easily implemented to enhance business development skills and expand books of business. In the book, Ms. Gillette highlights the nationally acclaimed Rainmaker Study and includes helpful tips from rainmakers and clients across the country.

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Gillette is the proud mother of two successful and enlightened sons and lives in Kensington, California with her husband of 40+ years. She has served as an elected official of her town and is active in political and community organizations and activities.
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