By Dan Roe | October 18, 2022
A total of 165 law firms achieved the latest Mansfield certification as Diversity Lab urged firms to double down on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the face of a potential recession.
By Charles Toutant | October 4, 2022
"As soon as we knew that these laws were being passed, I became proactive and a group of us started working on putting a seminar together to bring this to light and explain what the laws are and why they are bad," said Jeffrey Fiorello, a member of the LGBTQ Rights Section.
By Jim Saunders | September 20, 2022
Florida says the law only bars businesses from requiring employees to take part in training programs that use targeted concepts such as racism and implicit bias.
Daily Report Online | Analysis
By Everett Catts | August 23, 2022
"I think it's human nature for people to congregate with those who are like them in so many ways, but I think in order to be in contention [for a judgeship], people have to know you beyond your comfort zones," Georgia Supreme Court Justice Verda Colvin said. "So you have to be willing to expand your circle and even be willing to include people in your own circle who you may disagree with in so many different ways.
By Everett Catts | August 16, 2022
"I think it's the truth. It is what is. … I think the numbers really show you about diversity on the bench or the lack of diversity on the bench," said DeKalb County (Georgia) State Court Judge Alvin T. Wong, who is Chinese American.
Daily Business Review | Commentary
By Cristina Rodriguez | August 9, 2022
Refusing to accept the status quo of only about 10% of appointed arbitrators being women, members of what became the global steering committee discussed and debated different approaches, culminating in the pledge.
By Michael A. Mora | August 5, 2022
Gov. Ron DeSantis' appointment will make the judge the first Caribbean-American woman to serve on the Florida Supreme Court.
By Jim Saunders | July 26, 2022
The law lists eight race-related concepts and says that a required training program or other activity that "espouses, promotes, advances, inculcates, or compels such individual (an employee) to believe any of the following concepts constitutes discrimination based on race, color, sex, or national origin."
By Dan Roe | July 25, 2022
A region that prides itself on diversity still has work to do to ensure opportunities for all underrepresented law students.
By Alaina Lancaster | Zack Needles | July 8, 2022
For the first time in 15 years, Amy Wollensack of Akin Gump and Renée Delphin-Rodriguez of Crowell & Moring worked on a deal that was led by Black women on both sides. The M&A attorneys shared what the experience meant to them, and why it could be a sign the practice area is diversifying.
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