MCCA In The News

In-House Diversity & Inclusion Efforts Forged Ahead in 2020
A case study released by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association in October held up Barclay’s Legal Department as a top example of implementing diversity and inclusion efforts

Harrity & Harrity Launches Academy To Diversify Patent Law
They must also be women or a member of a minority group, as defined by the Vault and the Minority Corporate Counsel Association's joint categories, ...

6 Ways to Pay for Law School
Minority Corporate Counsel Association LMJ Scholarship: Awards $10,000 for “women and diverse” first-year law students who have an interest in corporate law, as well as diversity, inclusion and equity.

The Black General Counsel Project: Flowserve’s Lanesha Minnix
I think there has been an increase in the pipeline of ready-now candidates to be general counsel, enhanced in part by organizations that are providing development opportunities. For example, I participated in the Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s Next Gen...

How GCs And BigLaw Can Improve Diversity And Inclusion
Lawyers should coalesce to create strength in numbers when pushing their organizations to tackle equity and inclusion issues, panelists at a Minority Corporate Counsel Association virtual event said Wednesday while discussing racial inequities within their...

Facing racism and assumptions: Black women lawyers still often the ‘only’ one in the room
Within those small groups, Black/African American women were the least represented, the report said. A separate 2018 report by Vault and the Minority Corporate Counsel Association found that Black women represented just 1.73% of attorneys among 237 law firms surveyed.

Attorneys Saw Little Diversity Progress Pre-COVID. Will 2020 Make a Difference?
The 2020 Inclusion Index Survey Report, published by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association and Russell Reynolds Associates, found that lawyers perceived little improvement in diversity and inclusion in 2019.

Attorneys of color feel less included at work than white peers – report
Lawyers of color are more likely than white peers to feel they don’t belong in their workplace and that they can’t be themselves around colleagues, according to a report released Monday by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association and Russell Reynolds Associates.

Legal Lags Behind Other Industries on Inclusion, Survey Says
The new inclusion index survey from the Minority Corporate Counsel Association and executive search consultancy Russell Reynolds Associates asked nearly 300 in-house and law firm attorneys, most of whom were non-white or female, to rate their employers on diversity...

Legal Industry Is Still Running Behind On Diversity Work
The latest Inclusion Index by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association and executive search consultancy firm Russell Reynolds Associates drew responses from nearly 300 attorneys from law firms and corporate legal departments