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Florida Bar Training Program Shrinks to 31 Participants

A Florida Bar training program lauded by participants for having helped diversify the pool of applicants that become active in bar committees and leadership has shrunk this year to half its original size.
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New York Law Journal

City Bar Celebrates LGBT Legal Advocacy

The New York City Bar Association presented the Arthur S. Leonard Award to Noah E. Lewis, executive director of Transcend Legal, and Kim Forte, supervising attorney of the Legal Aid Society, during its 2017 LGBT Pride Reception on Wednesday
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Daily Report Online

The Coca-Cola Co.

Last year the top lawyer at The Coca-Cola Co. explained his legal department's approach to diversity. Bernhard Goepelt, the senior vice president, general…
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New York Law Journal

City Bar Recognizes Diversity 'Champions'

The New York City Bar Association recognized the recipients of its 2017 Diversity and Inclusion Champion Award Tuesday at its annual Diversity and Inclusion Celebration Dinner.
2 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Top-Down Diversity: The Role of Management, the Client and the Bench

Diversity and inclusion are so often discussed in the business world that they are becoming buzz words. Unfortunately, in the legal profession, the "buzz" seems to be just that: noise. Law firms and the legal profession, generally, are notoriously ­stagnant (and even falling behind) in diversity.
11 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

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

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."
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Breaking the Courtroom Glass Ceiling

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.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Implicit Bias: The Best Ways to Combat It

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.
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

2017 Roundtable Discussion on Diversity Issues

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.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Diversity

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.
6 minute read

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