Who receives origination credit at a law firm still impedes in-house counsel’s efforts to promote diversity and inclusion within the firms they work with—almost a decade after major bar associations began publicly addressing the issue and a decade and a half since a top corporate legal department tackled the issue head-on.

The American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession, Minority Corporate Counsel Association and Project for Attorney Retention released a report in 2010 that found women lawyers and lawyers of color had been bullied, threatened or intimidated over origination credit.