Q&A: Why Law’s Gender Gap Is Worse at Law Firms Than In-House
Women lead about 25 percent of Fortune 500 companies’ legal departments, according to an annual survey by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA). Another MCCA study on law firm diversity shows women are only about 20 percent of equity partners in 2017,...
Utilize Scholarship Options to Pay for Law School
The Lloyd M. Johnson, Jr. Scholarship by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association offers $10,000 to diverse first-year students.
Prominent Trial Lawyer Mike Gruber Joins Dorsey in Dallas
He has also received the Sager Award from the national Minority Corporate Counsel Association for his sustained commitment to improving the hiring, retention and promotion of minority attorneys.
Minority Lawyers Group Kicks Off Leadership Diversity Effort
The Minority Corporate Counsel Association has partnered with Microsoft Corp. to launch a new data-driven initiative designed to give law firms and legal departments a road map for how to cultivate a more diverse bench of leaders, the organization said in a statement...
Columbia Law Alum And Legal Recruiter Cynthia Dow On How Lawyers Can Be Chosen For The C-Suite
Yesterday, the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA) launched its new Inclusive Leader Program in partnership with Microsoft Corp. to address the growing need for diverse and inclusive leaders to disrupt homogeneity in legal leadership.
Women of colour get asked to do more ‘office housework’ at work
When it comes to housework like cleaning up the coffee cups, women of colour again were the most likely group to say they do more than their colleagues — 18% more likely than white men. (These findings will be published soon in a full report by the American Bar...
How Female GCs Help Women Advance Their Law Careers
The number of female GCs in the Fortune 500 has risen almost annually since the Minority Corporate Counsel Association first published its General Counsel Survey in 1999. In 2000, just 43 women led legal departments in the Fortune 500.
Men, Women Differ On Perception of Equality in Legal Field
Blacklaws acknowledged that while more women are becoming lawyers, the shift is not yet reflected at the senior levels in the profession, a reality that Jean Lee, president and chief executive officer of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, also has...
For Women and Minorities to Get Ahead, Managers Must Assign Work Fairly
Our research shows there’s also a racial dynamic to disparities in assignments. When we surveyed a nationwide sample of lawyers, women of color were the most likely to report doing more administrative tasks than their colleagues — over 20% more likely than white men....
15 Minutes With Discover Financial Services’ General Counsel
ANALYSIS: Black Workers Are Under-Represented in Legal Industry
An October 2019 survey of 238 large law firms by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association and Vault found that black lawyers made up 4.83% of associates and only 1.94% of equity partners. Whites made up 73.38% of associates and 89.87% of equity partners. Blacks are...
Why I Resist Casual Friday and Other Thoughts on Diversity and Inclusion: A Black Partner’s Perspective
The numbers are generally well known. According to the most recent data from the Vault/Minority Corporate Counsel Association Law Firm Diversity Survey, just 2.1% of law firm partners are black, and only 1.87% are equity partners. These numbers have been largely...
New implicit-bias tool offers insight and answers
"The existence of implicit bias in the legal profession is both obvious and well-documented. In 2016, the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession and the Minority Corporate Counsel Association partnered with the Center for WorkLife Law at the...
‘Things Are Different Now’: General Counsel, Corporations React Publicly to George Floyd’s Death
"We didn’t think of this necessarily as a political issue,” said Minority Corporate Counsel Association chair Stuart Alderoty, general counsel of fintech firm Ripple Labs Inc.
Harvard Law Student Aiyanna Sanders Awarded $10,000 Scholarship From Robert Half Legal and MCCA
Robert Half Legal and the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA) have named Aiyanna Sanders as the Robert Half Legal Scholar and a member of MCCA's Lloyd M. Johnson, Jr. Scholarship Program, Class of 2022. She has been awarded $10,000 to use toward law school...
ANALYSIS: Black Workers Are Under-Represented in Legal Industry
An October 2019 survey of 238 large law firms by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association and Vault found that black lawyers made up 4.83% of associates and only 1.94% of equity partners. Whites made up 73.38% of associates and 89.87% of equity partners. Blacks are...
Why I Resist Casual Friday and Other Thoughts on Diversity and Inclusion: A Black Partner’s Perspective
The numbers are generally well known. According to the most recent data from the Vault/Minority Corporate Counsel Association Law Firm Diversity Survey, just 2.1% of law firm partners are black, and only 1.87% are equity partners. These numbers have been largely...
New implicit-bias tool offers insight and answers
"The existence of implicit bias in the legal profession is both obvious and well-documented. In 2016, the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession and the Minority Corporate Counsel Association partnered with the Center for WorkLife Law at the...
‘Things Are Different Now’: General Counsel, Corporations React Publicly to George Floyd’s Death
"We didn’t think of this necessarily as a political issue,” said Minority Corporate Counsel Association chair Stuart Alderoty, general counsel of fintech firm Ripple Labs Inc.
Harvard Law Student Aiyanna Sanders Awarded $10,000 Scholarship From Robert Half Legal and MCCA
Robert Half Legal and the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA) have named Aiyanna Sanders as the Robert Half Legal Scholar and a member of MCCA's Lloyd M. Johnson, Jr. Scholarship Program, Class of 2022. She has been awarded $10,000 to use toward law school...