Women at Irell

Irell & Manella LLP is committed to attracting and promoting women attorneys by creating an inclusive, professional environment where all attorneys can excel. Women at Irell play an integral role in the firm's culture and leadership, including by serving as members of the firm’s Executive Committee and Management Committee, and as practice group chairs.

Professional Development and Community

As part of fostering an inclusive, professional environment for women at the firm, all attorneys at Irell place a high priority on recruiting a diverse team of lawyers, cultivating women lawyers’ professional development, facilitating networking opportunities, and ensuring that women are represented in all aspects of firm work and culture. Among our efforts:

• Women are involved in every aspect of firm culture and leadership, including mentoring, diversity, pro bono, hiring, summer, associates and executive committees. These committees take the lead in creating new initiatives and implementing and running programs to enhance the experience of our lawyers.
• Irell’s Women’s Network hosts internal events in support of fostering an inclusive environment where women attorneys can build successful and rewarding careers, including regular happy hours for associates and partners, external marketing events for women lawyers, internal informational sessions on leading figures in the industry, and networking workshops.
• All women associates are involved in the firm’s mentorship programs and activities, which include regular off-campus social initiatives.
• We utilize our active alumni network, which includes numerous women in various industries, to provide networking opportunities for all lawyers.
• Irell’s women attorneys are involved in various organizations in the legal and greater community. For example, we are actively involved in or participate on the board and committees of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Association of Business Trial Lawyers, the Federal Bar Association, the Orange County Bar Association and the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles.

Family Resources for All Lawyers

Irell offers a number of resources to help our lawyers achieve a successful work/life balance, including programs to assist both mothers and fathers following the birth of their children. For example, we provide a breast milk shipping service for nursing mothers who need to travel and up to 20 weeks of paid maternity or adoption leave. We also allow all lawyers remote access, in order to provide more flexibility. Additionally, we have a membership in Bright Horizons, which provides subsidized daycare and back-up care solutions for children and elders. For more specifics regarding our benefits package, please click here.