The women advancing aren't better than you.
They’ve learned how to claim their seat.
Learn the five shifts that accomplished BigLaw women use to reach partnership, equity, and the authority you deserve.
Only 12 seats available | Live Q&A
Only 15 seats available | Thursday, May 21 | 1 PM ET
Senior women in BigLaw.
At your level.
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Kimberly Lopez Narbona — Partner, Akerman · Founder, Latina Legal Minds
Repositioned · Two new clients · Diversified book
"I didn't want to be stuck in someone else's version of success. Rachel is a powerful advisor and a true ally."
Came with one strong client representing 80%+ of her book. Clarified her niche in financial institutions litigation, mapped 30 priority targets, and added two new clients — without feeling like she was mining her network.
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Leanne Lane Coyle — Associate, Fisher & Phillips LLP
Model for Associates Firm-Wide · Clear partnership track
"Before working with Rachel, I was weighing going part-time. What changed wasn't my hours. It was how I used them."
Originated a new client, assembled an internal team to deliver the work, and deepened relationships across key sectors. Her firm nominated her for early partnership consideration and held her up as a model for associates.
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Tara M. Raghavan — Partner, Benesch · Past SABA North America President
Three new clients in months · 10× return
"Results I could not have imagined. And I had fun doing it."
After 20+ years at an IP boutique, Tara transitioned into BigLaw. Within months of working together, she brought in three new clients, with more in the pipeline — returns that exceeded her investment nearly 100x.
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Afi Johnson-Parris — Partner, Fox Rothschild • Past Chair, ABA LP Division
New matters · Cross-practice origination · Equity partnership track
Originated a medical-practice matter through her civic network. Reactivated connections to secure new clients. Facilitated cross-practice collaboration in two areas. Positioned for equity partnership consideration — all within six months of joining an AmLaw 100 firm.
THIS IS FOR YOU IF
You’re already an excellent lawyer.
You want an excellent career.
You operate at a high level.
But work doesn’t feel high level - yet.
YOU ORIGINATED WORK.
BUT WHERE’S THE CREDIT?
Somehow the credit landed elsewhere, or got split in ways that didn't reflect reality. You don't know how to protect what you make happen.
YOU’VE BEEN TOLD:
JUST DO GOOD WORK
You have. That’s why they hired you. Partnership and equity run on a deeper game that nobody inside the firm can teach you. They work for The House.
YOU’RE IN ROOM.
BUT NOT WINNING THE WORK.
You attend. You show up. You follow up after every event. But somehow, nothing is adding up, and you’re understandably frustrated.
YOU CAN REPRESENT ANYONE.
(JUST NOT YOURSELF).
Negotiation, litigation, child care situation — you handle it all. But asking for business without seeming "salesy?" You freeze. Same situation if you want to take up space or claim what’s should be yours.
WAIT A MINUTE. THEY CHOSE HIM?
Not better than you. Not more senior. But they know something about how this game works that no one taught you.
YOU’LL GET TO RAINMAKING ONE DAY
Each quarter you delay, your base atrophies. But there’s so many emails and excuse me, but did another trial just get scheduled?
Five Shifts.
These moves shift the trajectory of your career.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
What Rachel learned from the inside about how ascending in high stakes environments actually works — and why internal resources are great but insufficient for what you’re up against.
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Your description of your niche isn’t setting you apart. People can’t refer to you, not because your work isn’t good, but because they can’t say in one sentence why you specifically are the person for the job.
What makes a niche clear — and how most lawyers think about this backwards
The difference between being known and being referrable, and how to close that gap
How to weave your background, passions, values, talents, and favorite clients together into a niche that lets you network with focus and specificity.
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You are networking in rooms that are easy to gain entry to but either decisionmakers are not there, or they intimidate you so you don’t approach.
Three questions that tell you whether any room is worth your time for origination
How to identify where your ideal clients actually gather — and what they're looking for when they get there
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The version of selling you were shown requires a persona you correctly reject. There is a different version of the ask — grounded in diagnosis, not pitch — that sounds like counsel, not closing. It is the same skill you already use with clients, applied earlier.
Why the ask that converts feels like counsel — and how to make that shift in a single conversation
The specific structure of a warm ask that reads as generous and authoritative, not salesy
How Tara Raghavan transitioned into BigLaw after 20+ years at a boutique, made the ask in the new environment, and brought in three new clients within months — returns she described as exceeding her investment more than tenfold
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The 2024 MLA Partner Compensation Survey: male partners averaged $3.9M in originations, female partners averaged $2.4M. That $1.5M origination gap has a huge impact not only on compensation, but who gets to drive their career and who does not. Credit does not protect itself.
Where origination credit leaks — and the conversation that stops it before it happens
How to protect and document your contributions in a way that reads as strategic, not territorial
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Your firm's BD department does client research, award nominations, pitch materials.
It will not give you real-time feedback on the conversation with the relationship partner absorbing your credit — or suggestions how to address additional barriers some lawyers face when the people making decisions do not look like them.
Why firm BD departments are built for scale, not the individualized strategy your specific situation requires
How to develop the high-stakes communication skills — protecting credit, asserting authority, navigating internal politics — that no firm training program teaches directly
Why the attorneys least affected by AI compression are the ones who built owned books, distinct brands, and the ability to have the difficult conversations that generate and protect origination
THURSDAY, MAY 21 | 1 PM ET
One decision.
Book your Intentional Rainmaker Assessment.
Every attendee is eligible to book an Intentional Rainmaker Assessment after the masterclass. Rachel answers live questions throughout. Space is limited — registration is required.
YOUR HOST
Rachel Clar
Rachel spent years inside high-stakes professional environments — practicing, structuring large-scale transactions, and watching who actually advanced in high stakes environments and why. She wasn't studying BD from the outside. She was doing it, failing at it, and refining it until the pattern became clear.
When she started naming what she was observing and teaching it directly, clients kept saying a version of the same thing: "No one has ever told me this before." Not because the information was secret. Because nobody with a stake in their advancement had organized it, translated it for their specific environment, and handed it to them as a strategy.
Inside legal and high-stakes environments for over twenty-five years — as a rainmaking businesswoman, not a coach
ABA LP Women Rainmakers Committee member
ABA LP Leadership Committee member
Speaker: AmLaw 200 firms including Lewis Brisbois, Cooley, and bar associations such as the Women's Bar Association of D.C.
Clients have built six and seven figure books in under a year
FEATURED CLIENT STORY
“I was doing all these things, but nothing was really taking.”
Ready to build a strategy for your specific situation?
THURSDAY, MAY 21 | 1 PM ET
This is your window.
Make it count.
Rachel takes a limited number of clients per quarter.
This masterclass is where that starts.
She has done this herself. Her clients are doing it now.