MCCA in the News

The Minority Corporate Counsel Association kicked off its 2019 Global TEC Forum in San Francisco on Thursday afternoon with a lunchtime plenary session on the compliance complications of California’s privacy law.

The nonprofit ranked about 400 law firms by percentage of black lawyers. Lawyers of Color asked firms to provide the numbers. About 75 did so. The nonprofit relied on other sources for numbers, including the National Association for Law Placement and the Minority...

Jean Lee, president and CEO of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, said she believes it is impossible to look at Liu’s failed nomination without looking at her race or gender.

An October 2018 Forbes article cites a recent survey completed by the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the profession and the Minority Corporate Counsel Association.[1] The study surveyed 2,827 lawyers and found that, in addition to lower pay and...

"You Can't Change What You Can't See" is a 2018 national study conducted by law professor Joan Williams of the Center for WorkLife Law at University of California Hastings College of Law and jointly co-sponsored by the American Bar Association Commission on Women in...

I’ve worked with law firms on diversity initiatives for more than two decades. It is often a sensitive subject that requires a change in culture and philosophy for some. The law firm “niche” of diversity often means membership and sponsorship with NAMWOLF, the...

“How are [companies] having diverse teams if the law firms, the very places you go to, are not diverse? You’re demanding diversity. That forces the law firms to say, we should think about ways to get diverse people,” said Jean Lee, the president and CEO of the...

Female lawyers, and especially women of color, are more likely than their male counterparts to be interrupted, to be mistaken for non-lawyers, to do more office housework, and to have less access to prime job assignments. (American Bar Association’s Commission on...

The Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s 2018 Law Firm Diversity Survey found around 17 percent of lawyers at responding U.S. firms were racial or ethnic minorities. Only 9 percent of firm partners were people of color.

Also in 2017, Facebook created a requirement that women and minorities must account for at least 33% of their outside legal teams, according to the New York Times. The article quotes Jean Lee, chief executive of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association: “Companies...