In an article titled “Why Are Women Still Walking Out the Door: Gender Equity Study Seeks Answers From NJ Attorneys,” in the February 12, 2025 issue of the New Jersey Law Journal, author Colleen Murphy discusses the Rutgers Law School Gender Equity Project’s New Jersey Women in Law Study, which seeks to understand why employers continue to struggle to advance and retain female lawyers and what can be done. The Project and Study were co-founded by KSB Law’s Managing Partner, Kirsten Scheurer Branigan, and Penny Venetis, Distinguished Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the International Human Rights Clinic at Rutgers Law School, and are being co-chaired by KSB Law’s Of Counsel Jin Y. Hwang, and Christine Petruzzell, a retired shareholder from Wilentz Goldman & Spitzer. KSB Law’s first year Associate, Katie Ann Insinga, also helped to launch the Study while in law school and continues to work on it. Branigan, Petruzzell, and Insinga are Rutgers Law school alumna. Petruzzell worked with the New Jersey Supreme Court Clerk’s office; Branigan is a Past President of the New Jersey Women Lawyers Association and served on the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Women in Courts; Hwang serves on the ABA Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession, and previously served as a Commissioner on the ABA’s Commission on Women in the Profession, including as Co-Chair, Grit and Growth Mindset Project, and Co-Chair, Native American Women Attorneys Study, and is Past President of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. Click here to read the full article.
