ALM has the story. Excerpt:
The Bay Area is home to a number of high-profile female general counsel, from LinkedIn's Erika Rottenberg to Oracle's Dorian Daley.
And approximately 20 percent of the GC posts at California companies in the Fortune 1000 are held by women, according to a new survey by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association. Nationwide, women hold roughly the same proportion of those jobs. At the highest-earning U.S. companies, there are 189 female chief legal officers, up three over last year's survey. They work alongside just 20 women — like Hewlett-Packard's Meg Whitman, IBM's Virginia Rommety and Yahoo's Marissa Mayer — running the nation's top companies.
"This shows progress, however slowly, in the diversity and inclusion within the legal profession, but all legal leaders must dedicate themselves to offering more women within their departments increased opportunities for mentoring, development and career growth for there to be parity with male legal leaders," Joseph West, president and CEO of the MCCA, said in a statement.