By Miriam Rozen | July 24, 2017
Mary Smith, as an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation, will be one of the first Native Americans to serve as an officer of the American Bar Association when she becomes its secretary this month.
By Todd Cunningham | July 21, 2017
A few tweaks were required when the legal profession, anxious to improve diversity within its ranks, borrowed from the NFL's playbook and adopted the "Rooney Rule," which requires teams to interview minority candidates for all head coach openings. At Chicago-based law firm Seyfarth Shaw, for example, executives do their hiring mindful of the "Rooney Presumption," according to partner Laura Maechtlen.
By Vivia Chen, The Careerist | July 20, 2017
While it might be easy to read a recent report as a confirmation of how the system fails Asian-Americans, it actually paints a more complicated picture.
By Stephanie Forshee | July 18, 2017
The Inclusion Initiative involves big players such as Prudential Financial, Wal-Mart and Coca-Cola.
By Ross Todd | July 18, 2017
A study released Tuesday by NAPABA and Yale Law School found Asian-Americans, the fastest-growing minority group in the legal profession, have made only limited progress in reaching the upper echelons of the law.
By Nichole Morford | Daily Business Review | July 6, 2017
In the Daily Business Review's diversity special section, articles focus on an anecdotal increase in the number of women rising in firm leadership and a Florida Bar training program lauded by participants for having helped diversity.
By Jeffrey Winn | July 6, 2017
An ancient Danish proverb posits that an old error has more friends than a new truth. It is a recurring theme in this collection of scholarly articles, each of which analyzes how gender-related stereotypes and practices have negatively influenced law enforcement, courts, and correctional facilities in their treatment of women and girls.
By Jeff Storey | July 3, 2017
Members of a new commission tasked with addressing LGBTQ issues in state courts have underlined their mission by naming the panel after a Manhattan judge who was a forceful advocate of the gay and lesbian community at a dark time in its history.
By Shibani Gokhale | July 3, 2017
Profiles of the new leaders of the Asian American Bar Association of New York; Dominican Bar Association; LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York (LeGaL); Puerto Rican Bar Association; South Asian Bar Association of New York; Hispanic National Bar Association, New York Region; and New York Women's Bar Association.
By Monika Gonzalez Mesa | June 30, 2017
A Florida Bar training program lauded by participants for having helped diversify the pool of applicants that become active in bar committees and leadership has shrunk this year to half its original size.
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