Diversity

  • New York Law Journal

    City Bar Celebrates LGBT Legal Advocacy

    By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | June 29, 2017

    The New York City Bar Association presented the Arthur S. Leonard Award to Noah E. Lewis, executive director of Transcend Legal, and Kim Forte, supervising attorney of the Legal Aid Society, during its 2017 LGBT Pride Reception on Wednesday

  • Daily Report Online

    The Coca-Cola Co.

    By dailyreportonline | Daily Report | June 29, 2017

    Last year the top lawyer at The Coca-Cola Co. explained his legal department's approach to diversity. Bernhard Goepelt, the senior vice president, general…

  • New York Law Journal

    City Bar Recognizes Diversity 'Champions'

    By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | June 28, 2017

    The New York City Bar Association recognized the recipients of its 2017 Diversity and Inclusion Champion Award Tuesday at its annual Diversity and Inclusion Celebration Dinner.

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    Top-Down Diversity: The Role of Management, the Client and the Bench

    By Jacklyn Fetbroyt | June 27, 2017

    Diversity and inclusion are so often discussed in the business world that they are becoming buzz words. Unfortunately, in the legal profession, the "buzz" seems to be just that: noise. Law firms and the legal profession, generally, are notoriously ­stagnant (and even falling behind) in diversity.

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    Proposed Amendment to Rule 8.4: How Will It Impact Diversity and Inclusion

    By Natalie Klyashtorny | June 27, 2017

    At its August 2016 annual meeting, the American Bar Association passed a resolution that amended 8.4 of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct to make it an ethical violation for an attorney to "engage in conduct that the lawyer knows or reasonably should know is harassment or discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or socioeconomic status in conduct related to the practice of law."

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    Breaking the Courtroom Glass Ceiling

    By Meghan Rohling Kelly | June 27, 2017

    For the last 20 years, approximately half of all law school graduates have been women. Yet, as has been widely reported, women only make up slightly more than 20 percent of the partnership at major law firms, with even fewer women becoming equity partners.

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    Implicit Bias: The Best Ways to Combat It

    By Beth A. Slagle | June 27, 2017

    We all understand what explicit biases aremdash;they are the biases that we have that we know about. They are conscious and largely controllable. Implicit bias, unlike explicit bias, is more complex and refers to our attitudes or stereotypes that we have about a person or a group but that reside in our subconscious. These biases affect the way we act and react, but all in an unconscious manner.

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    2017 Roundtable Discussion on Diversity Issues

    By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | June 27, 2017

    The editorial staff of The Legal Intelligencer recognizes diversity as a continuing concern in the legal community. This is our biannual discussion, an attempt to propose concrete solutions for the issues the legal profession faces in recruiting, hiring and retaining minority attorneys.

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    Diversity

    By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | June 27, 2017

    In the Legal's Diversity supplement, read about ways to combat implicit bias, the role of management in top-down diversity efforts and check out our roundtable discussion.

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    The State of Sexual Orientation Discrimination Under Title VII

    By Elizabeth Livingston | June 27, 2017

    Until recently, no U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit had extended Title VII to include sexual orientation as a protected class, meaning that LGBTQ individuals who suffer discrimination could not avail themselves of Title VII protection from bias.

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