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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

How Law Depts. — With And Without DEI Ideas — Have Fared

In 2021, the legal industry saw record high 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 annual data released in October by the Minority...

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

Law Firm Diversity Barely Budges – Again

Ethnic and racial diversity remains largely stagnant at U.S. law firms, with the percentage of Black, Asian and Latino lawyers ticking up just slightly in 2021 compared to the previous year, the Minority Corporate Counsel Association said in an annual report.

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

Hueston Hennigan Has First South Asian, Muslim, Openly Gay Chief

Asian American lawyers are the second largest racial or ethnic group among all law firm attorneys, but fewer Asian American attorneys are represented in executive roles relative to their total firm representation, according to the most recent Vault/Minority Corporate...

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

Employers in 2022 Were Torn on When to Pipe Up on Social Issues

Jean Lee, CEO of Minority Counsel Association: “I cannot imagine any major public company GC putting out their personal opinions on social media about any of these political issues, because of the fact that people take one thing and blow it out of context.”

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...

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...

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...

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...

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