Thursday, June 7, 2007

Gay Lawyers Come Out as Firms Push Diversity to Attract Clients, Talent

(Bloomberg) -- When Coco Soodek, a corporate lawyer
in the Chicago office of Bryan Cave LLP, was promoted to partner
in 2005, the firm invited all the new partners to dinner at its
St. Louis headquarters.

Soodek, 36, was encouraged to bring her companion, Roxanne
Saylor, 37. The couple was seated by the wife of the firm's
chairman, and the partners' spouses were asked to stand.


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