Five years ago, Roderick Palmore wrote "A Call to Action" -- a pledge signed by GCs at some of the country's largest corporations to make diversity a major consideration in their selection of outside counsel. Diversity efforts across the legal profession mushroomed, but real progress has been painfully slow. A sample of diversity advocates, law firm partners, GCs and law school leaders generally agree that the legal profession needs to make deeper, more collective changes to jump-start the stalled diversity movement.
October 20, 2009 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Five years ago this month, Roderick Palmore wrote “A Call to Action” — a pledge signed by the general counsel of some of the country’s largest corporations vowing to make diversity a major consideration in their selection of outside counsel.
Palmore, now the general counsel of General Mills Inc., wanted companies to put more business pressure on law firms to improve the diversity of their attorney ranks, where racial minorities long have been woefully underrepresented.
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