New York Law Journal | Letter to the Editor
By Alvin Schulman | September 24, 2020
Recent coverage of the death of Justice Ginsburg claims that "a federal district judge, Edmund L. Palmieri, … agreed to hire her only after [a Columbia Law School professor] threatened never to send the judge another law clerk if he did not." I was Judge Palmieri's clerk when he interviewed Ruth Ginsburg, and can attest that the "threat", if made, was not the cause of the judge's job offer.
By Dylan Jackson | September 15, 2020
The new midsize program, piloted by 20 firms with under 100 attorneys, has different requirements to account for the smaller size and fewer resources of these firms.
By Phillip Bantz | August 31, 2020
Progress is being made, but Fortune 1000 companies continue to hire more men and white lawyers over women and minority chief lawyer candidates, according to the Minority Corporate Counsel Association's latest report, which "tells a story of positive progress but missed opportunities."
By Dylan Jackson | August 21, 2020
"I've never seen anything quite like this in my practice of law before," said Beveridge & Diamond managing partner Ben Wilson.
By Patrick Smith | August 20, 2020
Michelle Crockett will take the newly created CDO position at Miller Canfield, while Leslie Richards-Yellen will be the new director of global diversity at Debevoise.
By Amanda Bronstad | August 17, 2020
Data gathered by Law.com shows very little progress in ethnic diversity of MDL leadership teams: only 5% of appointments, on average, went to lawyers who identified as "nonwhite" in MDLs created from 2016 through 2019.
By Dylan Jackson | July 28, 2020
The lawyer for plaintiff Kaloma Cardwell must pay attorney's fees associated with the missed discovery deadline in a race discrimination suit against Davis Polk, a judge ruled.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By David A. Katz and Laura A. McIntosh | July 22, 2020
In this Corporate Governance Update, David A. Katz and Laura A. McIntosh examine the demand for increased diversity on boards of directors.
By Vivia Chen | July 14, 2020
"The 'Karens' are in need of a voice of empowerment," one reader suggested, joining others who defended the white woman charged with a misdemeanor after calling police on a Black birdwatcher.
By Lisa Helem | Vanessa Blum | July 2, 2020
Grace Speights of Morgan Lewis and Tara Elliott of Latham & Watkins discuss the current landscape and the conversations they're having about race.
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