Law Council of Australia Launches Female Attrition Study

The Law Council of Australia (LCA) will launch a national study next week to examine the attrition rate of female lawyers and their failure to reengage with the profession, as reported by Lawyers' Weekly.

The National Attrition and Reengagement Study (NARS) will be distributed to members of the legal profession. The aim is to obtain qualitative data that will shed light on trends in the progression and attrition rate of female lawyers.

The LCA has engaged independent research agency Urbis to conduct the study. LCA President Catanzariti encouraged current and former members of the legal profession to participate in the survey, which is open to both men and women.

“Why women leave the legal profession and do not reengage is an important issue for the national profession and one which I nominated as a priority during my presidential term,” he said.

The survey results will form the basis of a report that will include practical measures that legal associations and law practices can implement to address the causes of high attrition among female lawyers, and to re-engage women who have left the profession. The recommendations will target women working in private practice and the Bar at various stages of their career.

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