News and expert analysis on diversity
By Justin Henry | Jessie Yount | September 19, 2023
While the number of offers made to second-year law school students nearly doubled in 2022 compared to 2021, that increase was concentrated in larger firms with busier recruiting cycles.
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By Jessie Yount | September 19, 2023
Katz Banks Kumin, a civil rights boutique known for its work representing victims of sexual harassment by Harvey Weinstein and others, launched in San Francisco via a merger with another boutique with wage-and-hour class action expertise.
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By Dan Roe | September 14, 2023
In the face of scrutiny, some law firms may even be holding off on implementing DEI programming—a move diversity experts say could cause more harm than good.
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By Jessie Yount | September 13, 2023
Matt Stephens, one of the few openly transgender trial lawyers in California, joined Littler Mendelson as a partner in San Diego.
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By Alexander Lugo | September 11, 2023
"You're looking at not only outside interest groups that are trying to dismantle DEI efforts, but you're also looking at the state itself that may take interest in what DEI efforts are being put in place," said Adrian Felix, chair of Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod's DEI committee.
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By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | September 8, 2023
Marredia Crawford, now Chief Inclusion, Diversity & Equity Officer at global firm Baker McKenzie, said her focus is continuing to move forward with inclusion at the firm.
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By Allison Dunn | September 8, 2023
"Looking at comparators, looking at other things that don't add up, looking at the stories that are being told about your client. [That is] the less shiny sort of stuff but it's the meat and potatoes that end up making of lot of these cases work," said plaintiffs counsel David A. Karman, a senior associate at Gilbert Employment Law in Maryland.
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By Matt Spencer and Angela Vallot | September 7, 2023
In any recruiting process, a myriad of factors determine a candidate's potential—too many for any one recruiter to consider without the use of technology.
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By Brian Lee | September 5, 2023
Orrick New York employment law partner Jill Rosenberg said corporations should be "showing our DEI officers some love," given the increased pressures and work they are facing.
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By Amanda O'Brien | August 31, 2023
"It's important for us to take a wait-and-see approach and prepare for what the outcome may be," Ballard Spahr chief DEI officer Virginia Essandoh said of lawsuits pending against Perkins Coie and Morrison & Foerster over their own DEI initiatives.
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