The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Amanda O'Brien | March 31, 2023
The newly minted Inclusion Council has already created a language guide to educate employees on the implications of the language they use even in ordinary conversation and how certain terms or phrases might impact co-workers.
By Stephanie Wilkins | March 31, 2023
"By leveraging technology in the legal industry, data-driven automation can decrease hiring biases and increase diversity through more convenient and accessible job opportunities," says Raad Ahmed, founder and CEO of Lawtrades.
By Marianna Wharry | March 30, 2023
"There is overwhelming evidence in this case of Bank of America's racially discriminatory maintenance and marketing of its foreclosed, bank-owned homes," Attorney Jessica Weber, of Brown Goldstein and Levy in Baltimore, said on behalf of the plaintiffs. "We look forward to obtaining justice and holding Bank of America and its maintenance vendor Safeguard accountable for their discriminatory practices."
By Christine E. Hollis, Jonathan C. Hughley and David C. Read | March 29, 2023
Efforts to diversify the inventive population will not only foster innovation across a wide range of businesses and industries but will also help greatly expand the pool of inventors across racial, gender and ethnic categories, and the country as a whole will realize numerous benefits.
By Christine Schiffner | March 27, 2023
U.S. District Judge William Orrick III for the District of Northern California on his two-minute pitch to land a leadership role in an MDL and the importance of diversity in steering committees.
National Law Journal | Conversation
By Christine Schiffner | March 27, 2023
Since the founding of the group with its mission to increase Black and Brown leadership in mass tort and multi-district litigation, the organization has seen several of its members gain key roles in MDL steering committees and growing support from judges.
By Lisa Willis | March 21, 2023
Being fully bilingual in a South Florida market that reaches into the Caribbean and Latin America has its distinct advantages.
By Alexander Lugo | March 15, 2023
Large firms remain committed to formal DEI initiatives, even if they're now under fire, but women already at the top credit informal networks for their success.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Julie Negovan | March 9, 2023
In Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina, US Supreme Court, No. 21-707, the most diverse Supreme Court in American history tackles nuanced issues of equal protection and race under the Fourteenth Amendment. A decision is expected in June 2023.
By Brian Lee | March 8, 2023
Led by Deputy Chief Administrative Judge for Justice Initiatives, Edwina Richardson-Mendelson, the efforts centered on mandatory and comprehensive racial-bias training, beefed up diversity awareness in hiring, and creation of equal justice committees in each of the 13 judicial districts, to implement reforms at the local level.
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