There’s One Place Where Women Lead in Blockchain: Big Law

Women blockchain and cryptocurrency lawyers are stepping into practice leadership roles at a number of major law firms, defying expectations in two notoriously male-dominated fields, technology and law.

Women lead the blockchain practice groups in more than a half-dozen leading law firms, including Goodwin Procter, Morrison & Foerster, and McDermott Will & Emery.

That number could grow as newer female lawyers, including associates moving up the ranks, take interest in the burgeoning blockchain field.

Blockchain and cryptocurrency is still male-dominated, women lawyers say—which has sparked concerns about “boys’ club"-type behaviors, such as throwing industry conferences at strip clubs, for example. ...