{"id":137223,"date":"2026-02-18T12:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/137223\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:10:16","slug":"breaking-the-manager-ceiling-for-women-in-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/137223\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking the Manager Ceiling for Women in Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tBreaking the Manager Ceiling for Women in Law<\/p>\n<p class=\"sr-only\">2.17.2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"sr-only author\">By Jennifer Andrus<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-275136\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/shutterstock_2299697419-e1766764869218-768x530.jpg\" alt=\"Women in Law Mentorship\" width=\"456\" height=\"315\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The New York State Bar Association\u2019s Women in Law Section is hosting a workshop on March 11 designed for female attorneys whose hard work and reliability have brought them success but not led to advancement.<\/p>\n<p>The course, entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/nysba.org\/events\/breaking-the-manager-ceiling-for-women-navigating-advancement-influence-and-visibility-in-the-legal-profession\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u201cBreaking the Manager Ceiling: For women navigating advancement, influence, and visibility in the legal profession,\u201d<\/a> focuses on the professional who is a few years into her working life and now meeting new challenges. Women in Law Section program chair Laura Sulem says this program provides women attorneys the practical strategies to shift from being valued for reliability to being recognized for trust and leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis session provides the tools to increase visibility, influence, and advancement in a profession where perception often matters as much as performance,\u201d said Sulem.<\/p>\n<p>The hour long workshop features speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/jeantien.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jean Tien<\/a>, a best-selling author and creator of The S.U.C.C.E.S.S.\u2122 Method, her 7-part process to break through barriers to success. Tien will offer women tools to stop doing invisible work that does not advance their careers. It\u2019s not about working harder, she says, it\u2019s about working smarter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am offering a different kind of success. I call it fractional success,\u201d Tien said in a recent TEDx talk. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to do everything or be everything in order to be successful. You get to choose. You can achieve more with less.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The workshop will also focus on how to communicate with clarity and authority to influence decisions and confidently pursue more complex matters, higher-stakes roles, and promotion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nysba.org\/events\/breaking-the-manager-ceiling-for-women-navigating-advancement-influence-and-visibility-in-the-legal-profession\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Registration<\/a> for this free informational event is open. You can hear more from Jean Tien on fractional success in her recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FaupYdGoZtE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TEDx talk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breaking the Manager Ceiling for Women in Law 2.17.2026 By Jennifer Andrus The New York State Bar Association\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-137223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-new-york-state","12":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}