6 Tips to Boost Your Team Communication Skills

In today’s team-based environment, good communication is essential to being able to do your job well. As a legal professional, your interactions with your coworkers and other employees may be direct and real-time, such as project team meetings, or they may consist of...

Legal Job Advice: What Managers Can Do to Boost Productivity

So much of a legal job is time sensitive: deadlines for filings, affidavits, statutes of limitation and more. There’s no time to waste, yet your team occasionally suffers from procrastination. As a manager, it’s up to you to identify and address the reasons for delays...

Facebook Pushes Outside Law Firms to Become More Diverse

Like other Silicon Valley giants, Facebook has faced criticism over whether its work force and board are too white and too male. Last year, the social media behemoth started a new push on diversity in hiring and retention.

Bias Interrupters Survey

MCCA and the ABA Commission on Women in the Legal Profession are working with Joan C. Williams, Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings and founding director of the Center for WorkLife Law, to conduct the survey, Understanding In-house...

What Happened To All The Black Women Lawyers?

“A survey by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association found that Black lawyers leave firms at a higher rate than members of any other minority group, with Black women quitting even more often than Black men. “In 2015, 15 percent of Black men left their law...

Law Firms Struggle to Hire and Keep Black Women

During the past decade, law firms have struggled to make even incremental gains in the numbers of minorities and women lawyers in their ranks. But one group has been particularly elusive: women of color — specifically black women.

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