A gathering of women in-house counsel on the eve of the American Bar Association's Women in Law Leadership (WILL) Academy was set up to foster discussions on how female in-house counsel can, and need to, help promote women in law firms and the profession as a whole. Wednesday's summit, which was held at Temple University Center City, was opened by Temple University Beasley School of Law Dean JoAnne Epps. Epps likened the plight of female lawyers to minority attorneys, and said they are inching forward and then falling back in the recession.