As the first Black woman to chair the Minority Corporate Counsel Association board of directors, Wanji Walcott faces what many have called a watershed moment for diversity, equity and inclusion in the legal industry, as the pandemic’s most recent surge leaves remote...
Black general counsel lost 6% of their representation within the Fortune 1000 last year, according to a new survey, even as the legal industry and major corporations made broader pushes for increased diversity. The Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s latest...
Despite corporate pledges to improve diversity during the protests after George Floyd’s murder, racial diversity among Fortune 1000 general counsel actually declined over the past year, and especially among Black GCs, says Jean Lee, CEO of the Minority Corporate...
Wanji Walcott, general counsel at Discover Financial Services, has been named chair of the board of directors at the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA). She is the first Black woman to chair the board.
The data the Diversity Lab released in April was for firm activity between 2017 and 2019. That compared to data, from the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, that found non-participating firms saw an increase of .13% in their diversity achievements in the same...
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