Greetings. It’s been a sobering week in America. The fate of law firms’ diversity and inclusion efforts amid the pressures of the coronavirus crisis was a fraught subject even before the death of George Floyd and a nationwide response cast a harsh spotlight on indelible racial inequalities. It’s worth a look at what the current moment means for these initiatives, in both rhetoric and substance. Want to weigh in? Email me here. Want this dispatch in your inbox every Thursday? Sign up here.

 

Rhetoric and Substance