Fish & Richardson Announces Participation in 2014 OnRamp Fellowship Program

Fish & Richardson announced today that it will offer one-year, paid fellowships to women lawyers re-entering the legal profession through the OnRamp Fellowship Program. Fish is one of 15 top law firms that have joined the OnRamp program.

“These 15 law firms are innovative pioneers,” said Caren Ulrich Stacy, Founder of the OnRamp Fellowship. “By participating in the program, they are benefitting the profession as well as their own firms by forging a new pathway back for women lawyers who took a break and want to return.”

Women lawyers who are selected to participate in the highly competitive Fellowship program are provided with a partner advisor at the firm as well as training and career counseling.

Fish has an impressive roster of women in leadership positions, including two of the firm’s four practice group leaders: Ann Cathcart Chaplin, Litigation Practice Group Leader, and Cynthia Johnson Walden, Trademark and Copyright Practice Group Leader. Additional women leaders include Kristen McCallion, Copyright Group Chair; and Dorothy Whelan, Post-Grant Practice Group Co-Chair.

“Fish is pleased to pioneer the OnRamp Fellowship,” said Natalie Arbaugh, chair of Fish EMPOWER Women’s Initiative. “Too many smart, talented women walk away from the legal profession. We hope that innovative programs such as this will help more of them return.”