In 2015, Wilson Chu and Don Liu, two pillars of the Asian-American bar, cooked up an audacious challenge: Put 20 Asian-Americans in the general counsel seat of Fortune 500 companies by 2020.
In total, women account for 34.6 percent of all lawyers who are members of the American Bar Association, or more than 101,000 female lawyers. In Fortune 500 companies, women account for 24.8 percent of general counsel positions, according to the Minority Corporate...
Some organizations have implemented tracking mechanisms to assess the progress their outside counsel are making, while the Minority Corporate Counsel Association and Vault have developed a database of historical results to make it easier for in-house counsel to track...
Don Liu is executive vice president and chief legal & risk officer of Target Corporation. He is a long-time champion of diversity across the legal landscape and has been involved with the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA) for nearly two decades,...
According to the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, Asian-Americans are the fastest-growing minority group in law, but the most proportionately underrepresented at the GC and partner levels.
Minority lawyers are an increasing percentage of lawyers at law firms, but their numbers still lag at the partnership level, according to the Minority Corporate Counsel Association.
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