‘This study confirms what many of us have known about the legal profession for some time, that women, especially women of color, face a lot of barriers to success and aren’t measured as equals by their employers and peers,’ said MCCA chief executive Jean Lee. ‘We need...
In 2016, The American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession, the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, and the Center for Worklife Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law launched a survey “…seeking to understand in-house...
That’s one of the news flashes from the study by the American Bar Association’s commission on women and the Minority Corporate Counsel Association. I wrote about the study in my last post, focusing on how female lawyers of color in particular are disadvantaged. (For...
The Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA), a national organization committed to advancing the hiring, retention and promotion of diverse lawyers in the legal profession, is honored to participate in the 2018 Cantor Fitzgerald Charity Day. Esteemed journalist,...
Even with a growing number of legal department diversity initiatives, the playing field for in-house lawyers is still far from level, according to a new report from the Minority Corporate Counsel Association.
The report, “You Can’t Change What You Can’t See: Interrupting Racial & Gender Bias in the Legal Profession,” is based on a 2016 survey of 2,827 in-house and firm attorneys and was conducted by the University of California’s Hastings College of Law for the...
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