Professors Don Bergh from the University of Denver and Patrick Gibbons from University College Dublin set out to examine exactly this question.

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Mainly because law firms reward partners for bringing in new clients instead of retaining the ones they've got, says Joyce Sterling, a professor at the University of Denver College of Law who studies gender bias in the law.

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She is the dean and a professor of management at the Daniels College of Business, University of Denver.

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