Girls Club Does Not Exist

Abstract

This chapter focuses on a now off-the-air legal television program called girls club. girls club showed what it is like to be a young female associate in a male corporate world. That world involves sexual harassment, non-supportive senior partners, mixed messages, and real anxiety. Importantly, the show highlighted the importance of negotiation and dispute resolution skills to legal practice. Focusing on young women lawyers, highlighting negotiation, and depicting lawyers’ real feelings made girls club unique. The show posed interesting questions for young women lawyers: Can we be in the “boys club”? Do we want to be in it? Can we change the club? or Should we just form our own club?

Keywords: women lawyers, law and popular culture, lawyers on TV, sexual harassment