As tough as it is for black lawyers to rise to the top in law firms, it’s even tougher for black female attorneys.

Though black women have outnumbered black men in law schools for about two decades, they constitute only a fraction of the already tiny number of black partners at major firms: Less than two percent of Big Law partners are black, and 0.56 percent are female and black. Black women are the minority within the minority.

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