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...
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
Top Lawyers for Agilent Technologies, Tyson Foods, Vanguard Join MCCA’s Board of Directors
The Minority Corporate Counsel Association has appointed a trio of in-house leaders from the food, investment and technology industries to serve on the Washington, D.C.-based organization’s board of directors.
BCLP adds litigation partner
She is a former Thurgood Marshall Award winner from the New York State Bar Association in recognition of her pro bono work on behalf of a death row inmate in Tennessee, and a Thomas L. Sager Award recipient by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association for creation of...
Are Your Inclusion Efforts Performative? MCCA Speakers Weigh In
"Are your efforts to promote diversity and inclusion just performative? It’s a question everyone should be asking, according to panelists at Pathways 2021, held earlier this week by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association.
MCCA Launches Scorecard To Evaluate Law Firms’ DEI Efforts
The Minority Corporate Counsel Association has launched a diversity scorecard aimed at showing law firms where they fall in terms of several diversity, equity and inclusion metrics and where they can...
New Scoring Tool Assesses Outside Law Firms’ DEI Efforts
"I can’t tell you how many times I’ve hoped for an industry standard to measure my outside counsels’ diversity efforts. MCCA’s Scorecard is that standard and meets the moment in this new era of investor focus on ESG goals," said Wanji Walcott, MCCA's chairwoman and...
MCCA Chair, Discover GC Talks ‘Difficult Conversations’ and ‘Not Being Stuck’
As the first Black woman to chair the Minority Corporate Counsel Association board of directors, Wanji Walcott faces what many have called a watershed moment for diversity, equity and inclusion in the legal industry, as the pandemic’s most recent surge leaves remote...
Biggest Companies Lost Black Legal Chiefs in 2020, Survey Says
Black general counsel lost 6% of their representation within the Fortune 1000 last year, according to a new survey, even as the legal industry and major corporations made broader pushes for increased diversity. The Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s latest...
Are Your Inclusion Efforts Performative? MCCA Speakers Weigh In
"Are your efforts to promote diversity and inclusion just performative? It’s a question everyone should be asking, according to panelists at Pathways 2021, held earlier this week by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association.
MCCA Launches Scorecard To Evaluate Law Firms’ DEI Efforts
The Minority Corporate Counsel Association has launched a diversity scorecard aimed at showing law firms where they fall in terms of several diversity, equity and inclusion metrics and where they can...
New Scoring Tool Assesses Outside Law Firms’ DEI Efforts
"I can’t tell you how many times I’ve hoped for an industry standard to measure my outside counsels’ diversity efforts. MCCA’s Scorecard is that standard and meets the moment in this new era of investor focus on ESG goals," said Wanji Walcott, MCCA's chairwoman and...
MCCA Chair, Discover GC Talks ‘Difficult Conversations’ and ‘Not Being Stuck’
As the first Black woman to chair the Minority Corporate Counsel Association board of directors, Wanji Walcott faces what many have called a watershed moment for diversity, equity and inclusion in the legal industry, as the pandemic’s most recent surge leaves remote...
Biggest Companies Lost Black Legal Chiefs in 2020, Survey Says
Black general counsel lost 6% of their representation within the Fortune 1000 last year, according to a new survey, even as the legal industry and major corporations made broader pushes for increased diversity. The Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s latest...