More Than Third of Female Lawyers Harassed at Work, Survey Shows

More than a third of female lawyers have been sexually harassed at work, according to findings released by a legal research firm.

The total was actually 35 percent. Of that, 23 percent of women attorneys at law firms and working in-house received sexually suggestive comments, and 17 percent reported being subjected to inappropriate physical contact, according to data released by Acritas.

The findings published Nov. 28 support the view that the legal industry is still too complacent when it comes to stopping misconduct at work that harms mostly women. But 7 percent of male attorneys also said they’d been ...