How Women Lawyers Are Perceived: The Double Bind

Women often are the unfortunate recipients of misperceptions. And that is especially true of women lawyers. For example, women lawyers often are judged in a harsher light than their male counterparts when they display assertiveness, self-promotion or anger, according...

Panel: In-House Leaders Should Foster Diversity From the Top

Those leading legal departments have the opportunity to play a big role in championing diverse candidates by soliciting feedback and showing them they belong, a panel at the Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s 2019 Creating Pathways to Diversity Conference in New...

Teaching Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging in Law School

We examine the business case for diversity and how diversity can affect the bottom line. But we also look at legal diversity as a business itself. In addition to practicing law, one can find oneself on a career path to provide services addressing legal diversity....

Diversity in the Law: Giving Credit Where It’s Due

Nine years ago, the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession, Minority Corporate Counsel Association and Project for Attorney Retention released a report that found women lawyers and lawyers of color had been bullied, threatened or intimidated...

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