By Lisa Helem | Vanessa Blum | July 2, 2020
Grace Speights of Morgan Lewis and Tara Elliott of Latham & Watkins discuss the current landscape and the conversations they're having about race.
Daily Business Review | Commentary
By Eugene Pettis | July 2, 2020
The weight of this issue requires full engagement toward change. Authentic conversations have the power to peel back the layers of hurt and pain in one's life, to clear away the historical harm that has calcified through avoidance and neglect.
By Erica Silverman | July 2, 2020
"That is why diversity numbers in the legal profession have not meaningfully changed in almost two decades," former Big Law attorney Esuga Abaya says. "The weapons being used are ineffective or insufficient."
The American Lawyer | Commentary
By Liên H. Payne | July 2, 2020
Liên H. Payne, a former Big Law attorney, says firms too often leave "the laborious work of dismantling discriminatory practices to the person most affected by the problem, most likely to lose employment for raising it, and with the least power to solve it."
By Dan Packel | July 2, 2020
Caren Ulrich Stacy, CEO of San Francisco-based Diversity Lab, had worried that participation would drop as firms focused their attention on the economic impacts of the coronavirus crisis. But the result was quite the opposite.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Ann E. Lemmo | July 1, 2020
According to research conducted by the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession and the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, women lawyers, and especially women of color, are more likely than their male counterparts to be interrupted, to be mistaken for nonlawyers, perform more office housework and to have less access to prime job assignments.
By Dan Clark | June 30, 2020
"There is a reason you see a lack of representation from Black and Brown faces in law firms, corporate boards of directors and at the highest levels of corporations," Joe White, corporate counsel at StandardAero, said. "That is simply because the folks already in those rooms network with people who look like them and come from similar backgrounds."
Connecticut Law Tribune | News
By Robert Storace | June 30, 2020
On the same day the state's Criminal Justice Commission was going to vote on her reappointment as Hartford State's Attorney, Gail Hardy accepted a position Monday doing outreach work for the Office of Chief State's Attorney.
By Tomas Varga | June 30, 2020
Becoming an effective ally who really can support and empower the LGBTQ+ community requires taking positive actions.
The American Lawyer | Analysis
By Ben Seal | June 29, 2020
"We were told in no uncertain terms that the onus was on the Black associates to claw our way into the inner circles or the all-boys' clubs," said one Black associate who left an Am Law 100 firm.
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