The Minority Corporate Counsel Association has partnered with Microsoft Corp. to launch a new data-driven initiative designed to give law firms and legal departments a road map for how to cultivate a more diverse bench of leaders, the organization said in a statement...

In 2015, Wilson Chu and Don Liu, two pillars of the Asian-American bar, cooked up an audacious challenge: Put 20 Asian-Americans in the general counsel seat of Fortune 500 companies by 2020.

Minority lawyers are an increasing percentage of lawyers at law firms, but their numbers still lag at the partnership level, according to the Minority Corporate Counsel Association.

In total, women account for 34.6 percent of all lawyers who are members of the American Bar Association, or more than 101,000 female lawyers. In Fortune 500 companies, women account for 24.8 percent of general counsel positions, according to the Minority Corporate...

Don Liu is executive vice president and chief legal & risk officer of Target Corporation. He is a long-time champion of diversity across the legal landscape and has been involved with the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA) for nearly two decades, including...

Minority lawyers now make up 16 percent of law firms — a record high — but remain scarce at the top, where only 9 percent of law partners are people of color, according to new data collected by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association.

Minority lawyers now make up 16 percent of law firms -- a record high -- but remain scarce at the top, where only 9 percent of law partners are people of color, according to new data collected by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association.

While corporate legal departments and law firms have implemented policies and provided incentives to diversify their staff, leaders need to do more, lawyers say, from taking a more active approach to inclusive hiring to taking steps to diversify their own ranks of...

On October 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall took his seat on the Supreme Court of the United States. Marshall was the first African-American to sit on the Court. In the fifty years since his appointment, we must ask: Do Black judges matter? In the Trump Era, they most...