By Dan Roe | December 21, 2023
A profession struggling for more equitable representation confronts a legal activist who wants law firms to be colorblind.
By Sarah Tincher-Numbers | December 5, 2023
The firm recruited another group of former clerks who worked with Republican-nominated judges on the U.S. Supreme Court.
By Dan Roe | August 23, 2023
The lawsuits filed this week take particular aim at language contained in the firms' diversity fellowship applications that conservative legal activist Edward Blum's group views as exclusionary against its "white, nondisabled heterosexual man" client.
The American Lawyer | Analysis
By Matthew Romano | July 11, 2023
These 15 wide-ranging matters show what a difference pro bono representation can make in the lives of clients.
By Alaina Lancaster | Zack Needles | June 30, 2023
In this week's Legal Speak episode, Lloyd Freeman, chief diversity officer at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, discusses where Big Law firms are moving the needle the most when it comes to diversity, equity and inclusion—as well as where they're continuing to fall short.
The American Lawyer | Analysis
By Dan Roe | June 30, 2023
A profession-wide effort to expand diverse talent pipelines is forming in the wake of Thursday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
The American Lawyer | Commentary
By Amie Santos | June 29, 2023
Amie Santos, a recent diversity director at an Am Law 100 firm, discusses how law firms can act fast to reaffirm their diversity efforts.
By Chris O'Malley | May 11, 2023
"Law firms aren't directly in the crosshairs" as the Supreme Court considers two higher education affirmative action cases, said Regina Speed-Bost, managing partner of SB Law. "But in some respects we are. It is a direct affront to programs that have worked to address disparities."
The American Lawyer | Commentary
By Ross Todd | April 26, 2023
Politico reported yesterday U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch didn't disclose that Greenberg Traurig CEO Brian Duffy purchased a 40-acre Colorado property from an LLC where the justice was a minority owner.
By Dan Roe | April 19, 2023
Green has always affirmed his innocence in a 1989 murder conviction that legal scholars have called a racial hoax.
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