Teaching Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging in Law School
We examine the business case for diversity and how diversity can affect the bottom line. But we also look at legal diversity as a business itself. In addition to practicing law, one can find oneself on a career path to provide services addressing legal diversity....
Panel: Becoming a Chief Diversity Officer Comes with Unexpected Challenges
Becoming a chief diversity officer at a major corporation or a law firm requires more than just a passion for equality and coming up with diversity and inclusion policies, a panel at the Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s 2019 Creating Pathways to Diversity...
Diversity in the Law: Giving Credit Where It’s Due
Nine years ago, the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession, Minority Corporate Counsel Association and Project for Attorney Retention released a report that found women lawyers and lawyers of color had been bullied, threatened or intimidated...
Keeping Diverse Firms Diverse—Sponsors and Mentors Can Help
According to a 2017 Law Firm Diversity Survey from the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA), 16% of attorneys working in law firms are diverse. This is reportedly at an all-time high according to the MCCA. However, at the same time, while diversity in law...
Building a More Inclusive Federal Judiciary
According to one Asian American female lawyer, “Being an Asian woman added another layer as men were often more interested in expressing themselves as romantic prospects as opposed to colleagues.” Attorneys belonging to historically underrepresented groups may also be...
Q&A: How Covington & Burling’s Pipeline Fueled a Diverse New Partner Class
The firm announced it has promoted 14 attorneys to partner. Nine of those are women and six come from ethnically diverse backgrounds. Even though women have for decades kept pace with men in law school graduating classes, they still only make up 21% of law firm equity...
A Sociologist Says You Need to Be White and Male to Look Like a Lawyer
According to a recent report from the National Association for Law Placement and a recent survey of diversity at 232 law firms by Vault and the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, women of color and black women make up 8.57% and 1.73% of all attorneys and continue...
Northwestern Law Joins National Initiative to Create More Diverse, Inclusive Legal Profession
The investment also will be used to implement Diversity in Law Hackathon ideas, and test evidence-based research such as the bias interrupters from the ABA and Minority Corporate Counsel Association study, as well as other inclusion research from top academics at...
CEO Action Pledge Gains Traction
To develop and expand pitch skills among women and minority associates and counsel, leveraged the Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s (MCCA) Blueprint Program—a program built on interactive hypotheticals designed to help teach skills for winning new work from...
Joint Development of Minority Talent Holds the Key
To better understand the minority attorney experience and the suggested recommendations, which are designed to reduce the attrition rate and deepen the overall talent pool, three surveys are worth noting: 1) Minority Corporate Counsel Association report titled,...
Attorneys of color feel less included at work than white peers – report
Lawyers of color are more likely than white peers to feel they don’t belong in their workplace and that they can’t be themselves around colleagues, according to a report released Monday by the Minority Corporate Counsel...
Legal Lags Behind Other Industries on Inclusion, Survey Says
The new inclusion index survey from the Minority Corporate Counsel Association and executive search consultancy Russell Reynolds Associates asked nearly 300 in-house and law firm attorneys, most of whom were non-white or female, to rate their employers on diversity...
Legal Industry Is Still Running Behind On Diversity Work
The latest Inclusion Index by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association and executive search consultancy firm Russell Reynolds Associates drew responses from nearly 300 attorneys from law firms and corporate legal departments
Top Lawyers for Agilent Technologies, Tyson Foods, Vanguard Join MCCA’s Board of Directors
The Minority Corporate Counsel Association has appointed a trio of in-house leaders from the food, investment and technology industries to serve on the Washington, D.C.-based organization’s board of directors.
BCLP adds litigation partner
She is a former Thurgood Marshall Award winner from the New York State Bar Association in recognition of her pro bono work on behalf of a death row inmate in Tennessee, and a Thomas L. Sager Award recipient by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association for creation of...
Attorneys of color feel less included at work than white peers – report
Lawyers of color are more likely than white peers to feel they don’t belong in their workplace and that they can’t be themselves around colleagues, according to a report released Monday by the Minority Corporate Counsel...
Legal Lags Behind Other Industries on Inclusion, Survey Says
The new inclusion index survey from the Minority Corporate Counsel Association and executive search consultancy Russell Reynolds Associates asked nearly 300 in-house and law firm attorneys, most of whom were non-white or female, to rate their employers on diversity...
Legal Industry Is Still Running Behind On Diversity Work
The latest Inclusion Index by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association and executive search consultancy firm Russell Reynolds Associates drew responses from nearly 300 attorneys from law firms and corporate legal departments
Top Lawyers for Agilent Technologies, Tyson Foods, Vanguard Join MCCA’s Board of Directors
The Minority Corporate Counsel Association has appointed a trio of in-house leaders from the food, investment and technology industries to serve on the Washington, D.C.-based organization’s board of directors.
BCLP adds litigation partner
She is a former Thurgood Marshall Award winner from the New York State Bar Association in recognition of her pro bono work on behalf of a death row inmate in Tennessee, and a Thomas L. Sager Award recipient by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association for creation of...