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The American Lawyer

Korean-American Ex-Shareholder Lodges Bias Suit Against Greenspoon Marder

A lawyer for plaintiff Jun Chul Whang said she's seen an uptick in the volume of discrimination claims brought by Asian-Pacific attorneys.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Greenspoon Marder Faces Bias Lawsuit From Fired Korean-American Shareholder

A lawyer for fired attorney Jun Chul Whang said she's seen an uptick in discrimination claims by Asian-Pacific attorneys.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

In Media Glare on Diversity, Paul Weiss Says It Takes a 'Different' View

In an internal email, chairman Brad Karp partly rebutted a New York Times report on the firm's struggles surrounding diversity, writing that its record was "significantly better than our peer firms."
6 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

BAR REPORT - NJSBA Diversity Committee accepting nominations for Mel Narol Award

NJSBA seeks diversity award nominees and hosts roundtable
2 minute read

Legaltech News

'Women Have an Enormous Opportunity': A Q&A with the Atlanta Women in Cybersecurity Roundtable

Cybersecurity Law & Strategy spoke with some of those women leaders about their biggest security and privacy challenges and why women are pursing legal and other roles in the cybersecurity and privacy field.
11 minute read

The American Lawyer

170 GCs Pen Open Letter to Law Firms: Improve on Diversity or Lose Our Business

Top lawyers at major companies banded together to craft an ultimatum after seeing "largely male and largely white" new law firm partner classes at Paul Weiss and other firms.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Google, Facebook and Others Sponsor Program to Boost Latino Representation in IP Law

Six tech companies—Adobe, Apple, Facebook, Google, Lenovo and Microsoft—are sponsoring a program from the Hispanic National Bar Association that aims to increase the number of Latino IP lawyers. Currently, Latinos make up less than 5 percent of the legal industry as a whole.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

New York Enacts Law to Ban Transgender Discrimination

The anti-discrimination bill adds gender identity and gender expression to the existing law banning discrimination based on gender, age, religion, race or sexual orientation.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

RBG and Jay-Z: A 12-Step Recovery Plan for Increasing Diversity in ADR

2018 will be remembered as the year Jay-Z forced a media spotlight on the lack of diversity in Alternative Dispute Resolution. Jay-Z's complaint drives home the fact that meaningful change on this front depends on clients and their lawyers—the ultimate selectors, the purchasers of arbitration services.
9 minute read

New York Law Journal

Skadden, Proskauer Get Creative to Recruit Women and Minority Law Students

In June, Proskauer will launch its first “Proskauer Prep” bootcamp, bringing 30 women who are about to start law school to the firm's New York office for a week of instruction on how to succeed in law school.
6 minute read

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