Harvard Should Trust Claudine Gay’s Vision and Avoid Glass Cliff

Jean Lee, President of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, says Harvard University should take the opportunity to forge new inroads for diversity and inclusion when incoming president Claudine Gay takes the helm on July 1. Lee says Gay’s appointment should be...

Women In Law Are Driving An Entirely New Practice Model

Just one example: out of all the Fortune 500 companies, only 43 general counsels (or whatever name you choose to use) are women. By my calculation, that represents less than 10%. I don’t think that it is a stellar statistic almost halfway through the third decade of...

Times are changing for Twitter ads, diversity promises fail and more

Companies making promises and bailing on them send mixed signals to employees and the public. Jean Lee, president and CEO of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, an organization that promotes diversity in the C-suites, called the trend “concerning,” as it may...

Corporate Diversity Pledges Fizzle Amid Layoffs, GOP Backlash

The slashing of these roles indicates that some companies don’t see DEI as essential, said Jean Lee, president and CEO of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, which advocates for diversity in C-suites. “This is concerning,” because prospective workers from...

In Their Own Words: 8 Women On Leading Legal Depts. In ’23

In 2021, the legal industry saw record numbers of women and certain historically underrepresented groups at the general counsel level in the largest American companies by revenue, according to the most recent numbers released in the fall by the Minority Corporate...

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