Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession (Oct 16, 2019)

Recent reports on diversity and inclusion within in law firms, corporations, and the workplace at large.

• "DLA Piper Targeted by Student Protests in LA, 3 Other Cities," Law.com

• "Minority Partners Disproportionately Placed in Nonequity Partnership Tier," The American Lawyer

• "Beware of Automated Hiring," The New York Times

• "5 champions of diversity and inclusion will receive Spirit of Excellence Award at 2020 midyear meeting," ABA Journal

• "Sexual Orientation and Employment: A Pivotal Moment," New York Law Journal

• "Supreme Court term to begin with blockbuster question: Is it legal to fire someone for being gay or transgender?" The Washington Post

• "Law School Clinical Faculty Ranks Are Slow to Diversify, Study Finds," Law.com

• "How Covington & Burling's Pipeline Fueled a Diverse New Partner Class," The American Lawyer

• "Equal Parental Leave for Men and Women Is Inevitable. Embrace It," The American Lawyer

• "Harvard Does Not Discriminate Against Asian-Americans in Admissions, Judge Rules," The New York Times

• "Judge Rules Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions Policy Constitutional," The Wall Street Journal

• "Harvard Defeats Suit Over Race-Conscious Admission," The National Law Journal

• "Judge Upholds Harvard's Admissions Policies," Inside Higher Ed

• "5 Takeaways From the Harvard Admissions Ruling," The New York Times

• "Harvard Won a Key Affirmative Action Battle. But the War's Not Over," The New York Times

• "That Affirmative Action Ruling Was Good. Its Rationale, Terrible," The New York Times

• "Despite Obstacles, Black Colleges Are Pipelines to the Middle Class, Study Finds. Here's Its List of the Best," The Chronicle of Higher Education

• "California may soon push doctors and lawyers to confront their biases," Los Angeles Times

• "White Borrowers? Almost Paid Off. Black Borrowers? Still Indebted," The Chronicle of Higher Education

• "Student Debt Reinforces the Racial Wealth Gap, Study Finds," Inside Higher Ed

• "Student debt is hitting African Americans the hardest. These experts have a plan to fix it," The Washington Post

• "When Dictionaries Wade Into the Gender (Non)Binary," The New York Times

• "Law School Enrollment By Race And Ethnicity," TaxProf Blog

• "31 Corporate Legal Departments Spent $240M With Minority- and Women-Owned Firms in 2018," The American Lawyer

• "5 Law Firms Crack Working Mother Top 100 Companies List," The American Lawyer

• "Wilmer Hires New Diversity Director From Boston College," The National Law Journal

• "'The Best and the Brightest' Clerks: Why the Justices Should Look Beyond Harvard and Yale," The National Law Journal

• "Law Diversity Group to Honor Deval Patrick, Freddie Mac Legal Team and Other Equality Champions," Corporate Counsel

• "26 In-House Leaders Join Five Law Firms in $5M Move the Needle Fund With Diversity Lab," Corporate Counsel

• "The Supreme Court said the Peace Cross can stay. How did these students rule?," The Washington Post

• "AI Makes Job Interviews Faster, But Compliance Harder," Legaltech News

• "A new study shows that women in law lower their voices to sound more masculine," Precedent Magazine

• "Looking Beyond Statistical Diversity," The National Law Journal

• "Law Firms Commit $5M to Tackle Legal Profession's Diversity Problem," The American Lawyer

• "Law Firms Pledge $5M to Fix Legal Industry's Diversity Problem," Bloomberg Law

• "Northwestern Law joins Diversity Lab project funded by large law firms," ABA Journal

• "Axiom Announces Release of First Diversity Report," Yahoo! Finance

• "Foley Hoag First Diversity Director Brings Fresh Perspective," Bloomberg Law

• "Harvard Law's First Deafblind Graduate Tells Her Story," Law.com

• "14 ways to discuss diversity in your law firm," ABA Journal

• "How Law Firms Overlook Diversity of Thought in Inclusion Efforts," The American Lawyer

• "For the first time, most new working-age hires in the U.S. are people of color," The Washington Post

• "Mentor a Diverse 1L: Help Construct an Inclusive Pipeline of Legal Talent," The Legal Intelligencer

• "Origination Credit Is Hindering In-House Counsel's Diversity Push," The American Lawyer

• "As Economics Profession Looks to Draw Women, Hotel-Room Job Interviews Get Nixed," The Wall Street Journal

• "Diversity Initiative Names 64 Firms 'Mansfield 2.0' Certified," The American Lawyer

• "Credible commitments to legal diversity," Legal Evolution

• "The Dignity of Disabled Lives," New York Times

• "In a Tight Labor Market, a Disability May Not Be a Barrier," The New York Times

• "Where Does Affirmative Action Leave Asian-Americans?," New York Times Magazine

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