if you’d like to donate to MothersEsquire. Women lawyers are unique and diverse individuals; we do not have the same specific goals in our pursuit of personal and professional advancement and development. The past twelve months drove home, many times over, the crucial ways in which women bar groups can support and empower to improve the status of women in the profession. As a director and officer of the National Conference of Women’s Bar Associations (NCWBA), a national “bar association for women’s bar associations” that advocates for equality in the legal profession and in society by mobilizing and uniting women’s bar associations, I have seen firsthand these benefits in action.