Recognizing the firm’s sustained commitment to women’s success, NJBIZ featured Fox Rothschild as a 2024 Empowering Women honoree. The program highlights New Jersey-based companies that engage in “tangible and innovative efforts to advance women in the workplace and community.”
Fox’s Women’s Initiative Network provides comprehensive support and robust opportunities to women attorneys and business professionals throughout the firm for business development, networking, mentoring and work/life integration. The Network also invests in resources for recruitment and career advancement, ensuring women’s perspectives are considered in firm growth and client service initiatives.
Fox Rothschild is also a community champion. The firm and its attorneys devote considerable time, energy and resources to supporting organizations committed to advancing women’s interests.
“We recognize that every woman’s professional journey is unique, evolving over time,” noted Todd A. Rodriguez, Fox’s Firmwide Managing Partner, to NJBIZ. “Our focus is on helping women achieve success in alignment with their personal vision and goals as they adapt and grow throughout their careers.”
NJBIZ lauded the firm’s sponsorship program, launched in 2022, that supports associates’ growth and development. The current cohort is comprised of 64% women.
Women hold key leadership roles across the firm, including nine C-suite roles representing 50% of these positions. Of the firm’s three offices in New Jersey, two are led by female managing partners: Eileen Oakes Muskett in Atlantic City and Catherine E. Youngman in Morristown.
“At Fox Rothschild, women attorneys aren’t just considered for leadership positions. We’re actively encouraged to take them on,” said Muskett, who co-chairs the Women’s Initiative Network.
The firm recently earned Mansfield Certification for the third consecutive year. Awarded by Diversity Lab, Mansfield is a year-long, structured certification program in which Fox has participated since 2021. It’s designed to ensure that all qualified talent at participating law firms have a fair and equal opportunity to be considered for advancement into partnership and leadership roles.
Muskett, Youngman and Corinne McCann Trainor, a partner in the firm’s Princeton office, accepted the award on behalf of the firm during the awards ceremony in November.
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