Dermondy’s comments followed a presentation by professor Joan Williams, director of the Center for Worklife Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law on the findings from a recent report titled “You Can’t Change What You Can’t See: Interrupting...
As confirmed by a recent report from the National Association for Law Placement and a recent survey of diversity at 232 law firms by Vault and the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, women of color and black women specifically continue to be significantly...
Looking at ethnic inclusion, the same study found that only 1.8% of IP attorneys are African American, 2.5% Hispanic or Latinx, and 0.5% Native American – meaning that none of these communities are represented at the Bar at even half the rate that they represent the...
Jean Lee, president and CEO of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, said she was not surprised by the report’s finding on the prevalence of discrimination. Her group was involved in a racial and gender bias survey that was released last year and made comparable...
Minorities are scarcest at the top: while minority lawyers now comprise a record 16 percent of law firms, only 9 percent of law partners are people of color, according to research by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA). But even the overall progress...
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