Discovery Communications Inc. is a media company offering nonfiction cable TV programming, like that on its flagship Discovery Channel. Its legal department takes diversity and quality of life seriously. General counsel Bruce Campbell leads a group of about 40 attorneys and 20 staff members. Among the attorneys, "well over half of them are women," Campbell said, including more than two-thirds of the senior legal team.
Although he didn’t have exact numbers for minority attorneys, Campbell said, "we do very well," including among the senior ranks. "Certainly, when it comes to women at Discovery, there are a number of initiatives that fall [within] our emphasis on working mothers," Campbell said. "We have a fantastic day-care facility on campus" in Silver Spring, Md.
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