Women in Law Empowerment Forum (WILEF) is a national forum that offers educational programming, networking opportunities, and leadership development for women in law firms and corporate law departments. WILEF’s efforts are intended to initiate change and achieve results that will lead to the advancement of women in law.

Begun in New York in 2006, WILEF now has branches in the San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago and Washington, DC, with branches set to open in other cities soon. Ida Abbott Co-Chairs WILEF-West, the Bay Area group.

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