Interorganizational Determinants of Promotion: Client Leadership and the Attainment of Women Attorneys * Christine M. Beckman • University of California, Irvine Graduate School of Management Irvine, CA 92697-3125 (949) 824-3983 (phone) (949) 725-2869 (fax) Cbeckman@uci.edu Damon J. Phillips University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Chicago, IL 60637 (773) 834-2863 (phone) damon.phillips@gsb.uchicago.edu February 4, 2005 Forthcoming: American Sociological Review (2005) • The authors contributed equally to this manuscript. * We would like to thank Joe Broschak, Mark Mizruchi, Robert Nelson, and the seminar participants at University of Alberta and University of Chicago for helpful comments on earlier versions of this paper. We would also like to thank those in-house and private practice attorneys that we spoke with for their insights and anecdotes, as well as the many research assistants, especially Joyce Chen and Beth Walls, who assisted in the collection of this data.