Eugena A. Whitson-Owen knew something was missing. The year was 2003, and Whitson-Owen — a civil litigation defense attorney — was a new partner at Moore, Maisel & Strickland and a mother of two young children. The demands of both her new position and motherhood left her feeling cloistered. “As young attorneys, we struggle so much with learning our craft, spending so many hours at our office. And I found that I didn’t have a lot of friends who were women in the trenches like me,&rdquo …