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...
According to a 2017 Law Firm Diversity Survey from the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA), 16% of attorneys working in law firms are diverse. This is reportedly at an all-time high according to the MCCA. However, at the same time, while diversity in law...
According to one Asian American female lawyer, “Being an Asian woman added another layer as men were often more interested in expressing themselves as romantic prospects as opposed to colleagues.” Attorneys belonging to historically underrepresented groups may also be...
The firm announced it has promoted 14 attorneys to partner. Nine of those are women and six come from ethnically diverse backgrounds. Even though women have for decades kept pace with men in law school graduating classes, they still only make up 21% of law firm equity...
According to a recent report from the National Association for Law Placement and a recent survey of diversity at 232 law firms by Vault and the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, women of color and black women make up 8.57% and 1.73% of all attorneys and continue...
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