Diversity

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    Proposed Amendment to Rule 8.4: How Will It Impact Diversity and Inclusion

    By Natalie Klyashtorny | June 27, 2017

    At its August 2016 annual meeting, the American Bar Association passed a resolution that amended 8.4 of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct to make it an ethical violation for an attorney to "engage in conduct that the lawyer knows or reasonably should know is harassment or discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or socioeconomic status in conduct related to the practice of law."

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    Breaking the Courtroom Glass Ceiling

    By Meghan Rohling Kelly | June 27, 2017

    For the last 20 years, approximately half of all law school graduates have been women. Yet, as has been widely reported, women only make up slightly more than 20 percent of the partnership at major law firms, with even fewer women becoming equity partners.

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    Implicit Bias: The Best Ways to Combat It

    By Beth A. Slagle | June 27, 2017

    We all understand what explicit biases aremdash;they are the biases that we have that we know about. They are conscious and largely controllable. Implicit bias, unlike explicit bias, is more complex and refers to our attitudes or stereotypes that we have about a person or a group but that reside in our subconscious. These biases affect the way we act and react, but all in an unconscious manner.

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    2017 Roundtable Discussion on Diversity Issues

    By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | June 27, 2017

    The editorial staff of The Legal Intelligencer recognizes diversity as a continuing concern in the legal community. This is our biannual discussion, an attempt to propose concrete solutions for the issues the legal profession faces in recruiting, hiring and retaining minority attorneys.

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    Diversity

    By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | June 27, 2017

    In the Legal's Diversity supplement, read about ways to combat implicit bias, the role of management in top-down diversity efforts and check out our roundtable discussion.

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    The State of Sexual Orientation Discrimination Under Title VII

    By Elizabeth Livingston | June 27, 2017

    Until recently, no U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit had extended Title VII to include sexual orientation as a protected class, meaning that LGBTQ individuals who suffer discrimination could not avail themselves of Title VII protection from bias.

  • National Law Journal

    Immigration, Labor & Employment Law Firms Top NLJ's Annual Women's Scorecard

    By Meghan Tribe | June 27, 2017

    For the sixth year in a row, the Fragomen, Del Rey, Bern-sen & Loewy holds the top spot on The National Law Journal's Women in Law Scorecard, which ranks the nation's largest law firms according to their percentages of women attorneys.

  • New York Law Journal

    NAACP LDF Leader Chosen to Head Appellate Defenders

    By Jason Grant | June 26, 2017

    Christina Swarns, a capital defense lawyer and litigation director for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, has been chosen to lead the Office of the Appellate Defender in New York.

  • Legaltech News

    Women of Legal Tech: Rock & Roll & Law

    By Monica Bay | June 22, 2017

    Darlene Tonelli's experience in the music industry set the frame for legal shops at Inter Alia Law and Codify Legal Publishing.

  • New York Law Journal

    'Politically Charged Environment' Fuels Discussion at City Bar Diversity Conference

    By Shibani Gokhale | June 20, 2017

    Dozens of lawyers gathered at the New York City Bar Association's third annual Diversity and Inclusion Conference this week with a similar question: What can we do to help?

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