By Marie D. Dukes and Teleicia J.R. Dambreville | October 6, 2017
Corporate law departments have a great vantage point to progress the business case for diversity and to effectuate changes in the legal profession's outlook on diversity and inclusion.
By The Executive Committee, Philadelphia Diversity Law Group | August 31, 2017
The Philadelphia Diversity Law Group (PDLG), founded in 2001, is committed to fostering participation of a more diverse group of lawyers in the Greater Philadelphia Region in order to make our legal profession stronger, more productive and better equipped to address the challenges of the 21st century.
By Lizzy McLellan | August 29, 2017
Pennsylvania's plaintiffs bar has continued to diversify its ranks slowly, The Legal's latest trial lawyer diversity survey shows.
By Ginene A. Lewis | August 10, 2017
Over the past decade, diversity efforts across the legal profession have burgeoned as research demonstrates that organizations with inclusive cultures have higher profitability than those without. Nearly every major law firm has committed hundreds of thousands (and for some, millions) of dollars on strategy efforts ranging from diversity committees charged with recruiting diverse talent to pipeline programs that target diverse students looking to start a legal career.
By Josefa Velasquez | August 9, 2017
Former federal Judge Shira Scheindlin, who is now of counsel at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, discusses what she thinks are the causes of the courtroom gender gap.
By Lizzy McLellan | July 31, 2017
In the latest ranking of America's 20 "A-List" firms, Pennsylvania firms were conspicuously absent once again. But some did well in a new aspect of the rankings—the percentage of women in equity partnership.
By Katherine M. Hubbard | July 26, 2017
Hunger Games enthusiasts will recognize this line by author Suzanne Collins. It could be the battle cry for the use of gamification in discovering and acknowledging unconscious bias. As we work to create more inclusive environments in our workplaces, one area that may be overlooked is our unconscious biases, and gamification may provide a way to make an impact and spread awareness in a safe and nonthreatening way.
By Jacklyn Fetbroyt | June 27, 2017
Diversity and inclusion are so often discussed in the business world that they are becoming buzz words. Unfortunately, in the legal profession, the "buzz" seems to be just that: noise. Law firms and the legal profession, generally, are notoriously stagnant (and even falling behind) in diversity.
By Natalie Klyashtorny | June 27, 2017
At its August 2016 annual meeting, the American Bar Association passed a resolution that amended 8.4 of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct to make it an ethical violation for an attorney to "engage in conduct that the lawyer knows or reasonably should know is harassment or discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or socioeconomic status in conduct related to the practice of law."
By Meghan Rohling Kelly | June 27, 2017
For the last 20 years, approximately half of all law school graduates have been women. Yet, as has been widely reported, women only make up slightly more than 20 percent of the partnership at major law firms, with even fewer women becoming equity partners.
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