United States: The Benefits Of Being A Woman In The Courtroom

In the early days, people made assumptions about us. They still do. A survey conducted in 2018 by the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession and the Minority Corporate Counsel Association found that female attorneys are far more likely...

New tools available to address workplace gender, racial bias

Dermondy’s comments followed a presentation by professor Joan Williams, director of the Center for Worklife Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law on the findings from a recent report titled “You Can’t Change What You Can’t See: Interrupting...

Why the legal profession should encourage diversity and inclusion

Looking at ethnic inclusion, the same study found that only 1.8% of IP attorneys are African American, 2.5% Hispanic or Latinx, and 0.5% Native American – meaning that none of these communities are represented at the Bar at even half the rate that they represent the...

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