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“During United Way’s

th
7 annual Project
Homeless Connect,

Miles & Stockbridge

employees served
in a critical role,

volunteering to

assist people facing

homelessness. Their

service provided
individuals the help

they needed to

change the course iles & Stockbridge Wom- sometimes be overlooked: the “and I found—and find to this
en’s Network has been human element. Issues abound, day—an incredible amount of
of their lives for M providing opportunities but it is often empathy and personal and professional value
for women colleagues to inter- friendship that prove to be the in engagement with my wom-
the better, and
act with a wide range of wom- strongest connective tissue. en colleagues in and out of the
we are grateful to en professionals, develop their firm, and their insights and per-
craft and exhibit leadership since From the outset, current spectives regarding challenges
have such a strong its inception in the early 2000s. co-leader Michele Cohen, a we share. There’s a lot of com-

community partner The affinity group has tradition- principal in Miles & Stockbridge’s mon ground, and a lot of com-
ally worked on and addressed Real Estate Practice Group, was fort in knowing that you are
in our fight against such big-picture, industry-wide attracted to the Women’s Net- not alone.”

homelessness.” challenges as work-life balance work as an oasis in a male-dom-
and empowering women in the inated field. “Big law has not his- The network’s other co-lead-
—Katie Downs workplace, but there is anoth- torically been the most diverse er, Stephanie Baron, a principal
Assistant Director of Development er facet to the network that can industry,” she acknowledges, in the firm’s Labor & Employment

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