The Music Academy of the West has announced the appointments of Pamela Strobel and Terry Valeski to its Board of Directors for three-year terms.

Kannon K. Shanmugam will be moving to Paul Weiss to build a Supreme Court practice at a time when the firm is under attack over diversity issues, but he says he is ready to help the firm deliver on its commitment to improve in this area.

Women of color are more likely to seek career advancement than their white counterparts, but they still can't win the race to the top in the legal profession.

The lack of minority partners comes at a high cost to firms, say attorneys at Lightfoot Franklin & White LLC, as they suggest several practical ways to tackle this problem.

Another study by Vault/Minority Corporate Counsel Association finds that the rate of black lawyers promoted to partner last year—2.3 percent—was actually the lowest to date.

Women make up 22.4 percent of existing equity partners among the 15 firms surveyed by Bloomberg Law, according to the Minority Corporate Counsel Association and Vault. According to data compiled by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, women make up 21.58...

“I don’t know any one of my female friends who have been in a law firm or even in-house who haven’t seen or experienced that,” said Jean Lee, president and chief executive officer of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association.

Congratulations to Gap for winning a 2018 Employer of Choice Award from the MCCA.