Archived Issue
November/December 2005
Cover Story: Presenting MCCA’s 2005 Diversity Award Winners Profiles of Leading Law Departments and Firms
Included in this issue are 20 individual profiles of MCCA’s 2005 winners of the Thomas L. Sager, Employer of Choice, and Special Achievement awards. Of the hundreds of law departments and firms that submitted applications, these select few were honored for their dedication to improve hiring, promotion, and retention of diverse lawyers in the industry.
Features
Columns
Presenting MCCA’s 2005 Diversity Award Winners
By Heather Bradley , By Miriam Bamberger Grogan
Profiles of Leading Law Departments and Firms Thomas L. Sager Employer of Choice Special Achievement Throughout the year, MCCA® publicly recognizes corporate law departments, law firms, and individuals for their…
Missing In Action: DC’s Disappointing Partner Demographics
By Melanie Lasoff Levs
Annual Report on Firms with No Minority Partners Diversity & the Bar® thanks the firms who took time to respond to our inquiries and candidly discuss their plans to address…
Welcoming Gay Attorneys: Law Firms with Domestic Partner Benefits
By Melanie Lasoff Levs
Domestic partner benefits for same-sex couples are becoming more commonplace in law firms. The practice started in the early 1990s at high-tech companies in Silicon Valley: the offering of domestic…
Entertainment Lawyers: Taking Center Stage
By Donna Dick
Many law students decide to focus on entertainment law as a practice area while in law school for all the wrong reasons. In this article, we dispel misconceptions that students…
Notes from the Executive Director
By Veta T. Richardson
KAN-Do! MCCA's approach to advancing diversity can be boiled down to an awardwinning approach that we call KAN-Do! "KAN" stands for Knowledge, Access, Networks. In June 2005, MCCA's KAN-Do! strategy…
D&B Brief
By Heather Bradley , By Miriam Bamberger Grogan
Year-End Acts of Kindness Heather Bradley, CPCC, and Miriam Bamberger Grogan, CPCC, are the co-founders of The Flourishing Company, a workplace consulting firm which changes the way people experience work….
White Men and Diversity
By Bill Proudman
What Works and What Doesn’t: Ensuring that Organizational Diversity and Inclusion Efforts Engage White Men This is the last of six articles this year that discuss how white men can…
Mentoring Across Differences
By Lloyd M. Johnson, Jr.
Isabella Fu: Managing Outside Your Comfort Zone Throughout 2005, five leading attorneys shared their thoughts about mentoring with Lloyd M. Johnson, Jr., the founder of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association,…
Perspectives on Innovative Leadership
By Susan Hackett
Susan Hackett is the senior vice president and general counsel at the Association of Corporate Counsel based in Washington, DC. In the bar association business, and from the seat…
Departments
Spotlighting
By Patrick Folliard
Alan K. Tse: Leveling the Global Playing Field Alan K. Tse, general counsel of LG Electronics Mobilecomm U.S.A., Inc., views success as something relative. In his eyes, he has yet…
Diversity News
By MCCA
EEOC and NLRB Renew Prestigious Attorney Honor Program On August 30, 2005, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) hosted a signing ceremony to renew its interagency partnership with the National…
Movers & Shakers
