With my admission to the partnership this year, I've had summer and fall full of internal meetings. August was the female tax partner/director celebration; September was the U.S. new partner/director celebration; and October was the global new partner seminar. The global meeting rotates between Asia, Europe and Americas as host, and this was the Americas. We met at Terranea Resort outside LA. Ironically it was my first time to ever fly into LAX. Internationally there were 600 new partners (125 women) from over 100 countries. The "roll call" was one of my favorites. Each country's flag was flashed on the screen and all of the new partners from that country stood up. There were the countries represented by a lot of people (U.S., Canada, England, Mexico, China) and then there were places that had one. The singletons received a lot of applause! It was also a lot of fun to spend time with the fellow women in my new partner class. The U.S. group got to know each other really well throughout the year, and it's great to have a network to rely upon.
