What does it mean to be an ally? The question was the panel topic for a group of white attorneys in positions of power at the Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s 2019 Creating Pathways to Diversity Conference on Tuesday.
Women often are the unfortunate recipients of misperceptions. And that is especially true of women lawyers. For example, women lawyers often are judged in a harsher light than their male counterparts when they display assertiveness, self-promotion or anger, according...
Those leading legal departments have the opportunity to play a big role in championing diverse candidates by soliciting feedback and showing them they belong, a panel at the Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s 2019 Creating Pathways to Diversity Conference in New...
We examine the business case for diversity and how diversity can affect the bottom line. But we also look at legal diversity as a business itself. In addition to practicing law, one can find oneself on a career path to provide services addressing legal diversity....
Becoming a chief diversity officer at a major corporation or a law firm requires more than just a passion for equality and coming up with diversity and inclusion policies, a panel at the Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s 2019 Creating Pathways to Diversity...
Nine years ago, the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession, Minority Corporate Counsel Association and Project for Attorney Retention released a report that found women lawyers and lawyers of color had been bullied, threatened or intimidated...
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