Attorney Evaluations: A Powerful Retention Tool

An effective bias-free performance evaluation process has a positive and direct impact on advancement and retention. But, what is an "effective bias-free evaluation process" and does your law firm have one?

The ABA Commission on Women recently released the second edition of Fair Measure: Toward Effective Attorney Evaluations authored by Joan C. Williams, Co-Director of PAR, and Consuela A. Pinto, Director of Education for PAR. This completely revised second edition manual contains a comprehensive review of the current social psychological literature on hidden gender bias and outlines a step-by-step process for implementing and conducting performance evaluations that are free from bias. Additionally, it includes a checklist for evaluating the effectiveness of a firm's current evaluation program, sample evaluation forms and policy, performance evaluation training checklist and materials for supervising attorneys, a summary of the various forms of gender bias, tips for writing an evaluation and conducting the evaluation interview and an instruction packet for completing performance evaluations.

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