Those leading legal departments have the opportunity to play a big role in championing diverse candidates by soliciting feedback and showing them they belong, a panel at the Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s 2019 Creating Pathways to Diversity Conference in New York said Tuesday.
Willie Hernandez, vice president, deputy general counsel at Hewlett Packard, said as a young in-house attorney at IBM he was sent to South Carolina to help close a transaction when his managers were told he was not the right attorney to send. He said he was not sure if it had to do with his age or race.
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