Archived Issue
May/June 2006
Cover Story: Wal-Mart’s Watershed Moment
As the nation’s biggest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is well known for maximizing efficiency in the supply chain and demanding the lowest prices for its customers. What is less well known is that Wal-Mart is just as demanding when it comes to diversity in the legal profession. Having overhauled both its in-house legal department as well as its top 100 outside law firms, Wal-Mart is working to ensure that the lawyers who represent the company are as diverse as America. At the same time, it is changing the face of the profession.
Features
Columns
Wal-Mart’s Watershed Moment
By Melanie Lasoff Levs
The nation's biggest retailer has literally changed the face of its legal department and its outside law firms with its diversity initiatives. Wal-Mart's Legal Eagles: (Sitting, L to R): Tom…
Diversity Leaders Speak: Putting a Policy into Practice and Staying on Track
By Elisabeth Frater, Esq.
A large law firm in Connecticut has trouble retaining minority associates. A small firm in Texas is tired of losing female partners to their larger competitors. Two different firms with…
The Language of Law: The Demand for Bilingual Attorneys in Corporate Law Departments
By Jennifer Borum Bechet, Esq.
U.S. corporations continue to expand their footprints globally, transacting business in or affecting previously untapped multicultural markets. Increasingly, these corporations are using the talents of attorneys who speak the language…
The Dawn of an Emerging Position: The Law Firm Diversity Manager
By Virginia Grant
Less than half of large U.S. law firms have a designated diversity manager, and only half of these managers are dedicated full-time to the position, according to a survey on…
There is More to Diversity than Sheer Numbers
By David C. Wilson
A Gallup survey reveals what workplace diversity really means to employees, managers, and the balance sheet Forty-six percent of women, 52 percent of people without high school diplomas, 54 percent…
Microsoft’s Law Student Intellectual Property Summit
By Patrick Folliard
Microsoft employees (L to R): Aileen O'Brien, Bruce Jackson, and Casiya Thaniel. As the economy goes global and customer populations become increasingly diverse, some leading IT corporations are making efforts…
Law Firm Diversity: Effectuating Change from the Outside
By Anant Raut , By Holly E. Loiseau
The lack of minority retention and promotion at law firms is not a problem that if left to its own devices would readily correct itself. Despite some progress over the…
Notes from the Executive Director
By Veta T. Richardson
What Matters Most: Making a Difference Right now, MCCA® is in the midst of receiving applications for the second class of fellows and scholars under our Lloyd M. Johnson, Jr….
D&B Brief
By Heather Bradley , By Miriam Bamberger Grogan
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Heather Bradley, CPCC, and Miriam Bamberger Grogan, CPCC, are the co-founders of The Flourishing Company, a workplace consulting firm which changes the way…
White Men and Diversity
By Jim Merklinger
Living in Dual Worlds: A White Man with Tourette’s Syndrome This is the third of six articles that will be written as a continuation of this valuable column. This year,…
Mentoring Across Differences
By Ida O. Abbott, Esq.
Reaching for the Stars: How Mentors Inspire High Performance in Minority Associates This is the third of six articles that will be written this year as a continuation of the…
Departments
Chance-2-Chat
By MCCA
A Conversation with J. Alberto Gonzalez-Pita Thoughts from the General Counsel of Tyson Foods, Inc. on Career Management Hosted by MCCA®, Chance-2-Chat is a free online discussion that allows individuals…
Spotlighting
By Patrick Folliard
A year ago, Juliette Williams Pryor received a call from a headhunter. U.S. Foodservice, a broad-line food distribution company with yearly revenues exceeding $18 billion, was in the market for…
Diversity News
By MCCA
MCCA® Thanks Sponsors of the Third Annual General Counsel Invitational Golf Classic On April 7–9, 2006, MCCA® hosted its Third Annual General Counsel Invitational Golf & Spa Classic, a weekend-long…
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