MCCA in the News

"With IHF, it's not just about providing CLE. It's about high-quality, diversity-fueled educational content that helps broker meaningful conversations between corporate legal departments and law firms," said Jean Lee, CEO at the Minority Corporate Counsel Association...

She is the recipient of numerous industry accolades, including the Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s Rising Star award, DC Access to Justice Commission’s Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll recipient, the National Bar Association’s Outstanding Partner in a Firm...

Mayes’s career encompasses work in the public and private sectors, including in senior legal positions at Unisys Corporation, Colgate-Palmolive, and Allstate Insurance Company. From 1976 to 1982, she served at the U.S. Department of Justice as an assistant U.S....

Discover’s Law Department has been recognized by many organizations. In 2016, it was the recipient of the Association of Corporate Counsel’s Matthew J. Whitehead, II Diversity Award. In 2017, the Minority Corporate Counsel Association selected Discover as a national...

According to the ABA Commission of Women in the Profession and the Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s report issued in 2018, women of color, white women, and men of color have reported that they have to go “above and beyond” to get the same recognition and...

Readers discuss an article about the all-white and predominantly male class of partners at Paul, Weiss.

The Music Academy of the West has announced the appointments of Pamela Strobel and Terry Valeski to its Board of Directors for three-year terms.

Kannon K. Shanmugam will be moving to Paul Weiss to build a Supreme Court practice at a time when the firm is under attack over diversity issues, but he says he is ready to help the firm deliver on its commitment to improve in this area.

Women of color are more likely to seek career advancement than their white counterparts, but they still can't win the race to the top in the legal profession.

In just one example, a 2018 report prepared for the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession and the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, titled “You Can’t Change What You Can’t See: Interrupting Racial and Gender Bias in the Legal...