Recent research from Australia indicates that women lawyers in that jurisdiction are outperforming their non-lawyer executive female counterparts by rising faster and in greater numbers up the corporate ladder. Women make up 30 per cent of general counsel posts at top Australian corporations, while they hold fewer than 10 per cent of key executive positions elsewhere in those companies. However, that stellar female lawyer performance doesn’t appear to be replicated across the global corporate world. Our survey of leading general counsel shows that while the position is relatively evenly split, most heads of legal answered ‘no’ to our question.