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News and expert analysis on diversity
By Gautam Bhattacharyya, Reed Smith | August 9, 2023
For South Asian Heritage Month, Reed Smith's Gautam Bhattacharyya talks about facing rejection after trying to enter the legal profession, and how he turned those experiences into a positive force.
4 minute read
By Nav Sahota, Reed Smith | August 7, 2023
Reed Smith's Nav Sahota talks about the assumptions that other lawyers made about her early in her career, and offers advice to South Asian lawyers on how to excel while being yourself.
4 minute read
By Charlotte Johnstone | August 2, 2023
Law.com research shows that representation at partnership level is massively behind the national average, with some disabled lawyers calling current firm efforts "insufficient" and little more than a PR exercise.
6 minute read
By Charlotte Johnstone | July 24, 2023
The famously blue-blooded institution is broadening the universities it works with, offering apprenticeships and starting a financial bursary scheme to help achieve its aims.
4 minute read
By Habiba Cullen-Jafar | July 18, 2023
Data-driven research by Law.com International shows how the elite firms appear to skirt anti-ageism laws to keep their partnerships young.
5 minute read
By Charlotte Johnstone | July 14, 2023
US law firms continue to outperform UK rivals, with the Law Society's president pointing to a trend of minority lawyers quitting larger law firms due to a lack of progress.
5 minute read
By Amy Guthrie | July 10, 2023
As part of the deal, Chile has pledged to convince publicly traded companies to appoint women to at least 40% of their board seats by the end of 2031. It has also committed to getting its annual greenhouse gas emissions below certain targets by the end of 2030.
2 minute read
By Christopher Niesche | July 10, 2023
35% of partner or principal positions held by women in Australia's largest state.
2 minute read
By Anne Bagamery | June 27, 2023
A long list of potentials has been whittled down to make this year's list of Continental Europe's 25 future female leaders in law.
29 minute read
By Linda A. Thompson | June 26, 2023
An in-depth investigation has found Brussels ethnic minorities paint a picture of a legal industry in which they face exclusion, harassment, and other hurdles to progress in their careers.
11 minute read
Delaware Business Court Insider
By Ellen Bardash | May 23, 2024
Those involved with the bar admissions process say more time is needed to say for sure whether the changes will lead to more attorneys practicing in Delaware, but that early signs have been promising.
6 minute read
By Brian Lee | May 22, 2024
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler litigation partner Muhammad U. Faridi, who took office on Tuesday, sees the technology as one part of preparing the future generation of lawyers.
4 minute read
By Thomas Spigolon | May 17, 2024
Sarah Spitalnick's claim differs somewhat from a similar effort by legal activist Edward Blum.
5 minute read
By Patrick Smith | May 15, 2024
The new center, designed to bring impact litigation to combat hate-driven violence, is looking to leverage the firm's litigation power while partnering with civil rights groups.
3 minute read
By Thisanka Siripala | May 14, 2024
Japan's top law firms are under pressure to improve workplace diversity amid the dwindling popularity of the legal profession.
5 minute read
By Trudy Knockless | May 14, 2024
Employers that refuse to use transgender workers' preferred pronounces or bar them from using the bathroom that matches their gender identity would be committing workplace harassment, according to recently issued EEOC guidance.
3 minute read
By Ellen Bardash | May 14, 2024
Twelve steps the 2022 report outlined as ways to reduce barriers to notoriously stringent Delaware bar admission have been taken, making that the element of the plan that's seen the most concrete change over the past two years.
3 minute read
Delaware Business Court Insider
By Ellen Bardash | May 14, 2024
Twelve steps the 2022 report outlined as ways to reduce barriers to notoriously stringent Delaware bar admission have been taken, making that the element of the plan that's seen the most concrete change over the past two years.
3 minute read
By Andrew M. Gordon and Lauren Swanson | May 7, 2024
The mandatory meeting provision of the act was only in place for seven weeks before a preliminary injunction was issued preventing its enforcement. Now, with the Eleventh Circuit's ruling, Florida employers are permitted to continue conducting their mandatory workplace trainings without regard to the act.
8 minute read
By Ross Todd | May 2, 2024
Retired Latham & Watkins litigation partner Thomas Heiden, who heads the committee spearheading the program, said the college hasn't changed its approach after last year's Supreme Court affirmative action decision.
4 minute read
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