Diversity

Racial disparities in law school applicants remain, AccessLex Institute says

Racial disparities among law school applicants persist, according to the AccessLex Institute’s Legal Education Data Deck.

Aug 15, 2024 9:36 AM CDT

This BigLaw firm tops ‘A-List’ despite lower gross revenues

Munger, Tolles & Olson is No. 1 in a ranking of “A-List” law firms that is based on a combination of cultural and financial factors.

Aug 14, 2024 8:46 AM CDT

When does DEI training discriminate against white people? Courts will decide

DEI training is coming under special scrutiny, with at least seven court cases pending nationwide alleging that it constitutes workplace discrimination.

Aug 12, 2024 10:35 AM CDT

Former counsel sues BigLaw firm for alleged disability discrimination

A former counsel at Mayer Brown who was diagnosed with breast cancer in April 2022 has filed a disability bias lawsuit against the law firm.

Aug 8, 2024 11:48 AM CDT

Lawyers play pivotal role fighting tyranny, says incoming ABA President-elect Michelle Behnke

A strong group of attorneys advances and protects the law—and the ABA is and will continue to be the power behind those efforts, ABA President-elect Michelle Behnke said.

Aug 6, 2024 11:43 AM CDT

Billable hours for DEI work? Yes, please

Many firms already credit pro bono hours toward their attorneys’ billable hours. But what about the time attorneys devote to bar association activities and diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives?

Aug 5, 2024 6:31 PM CDT

Sharecropper’s son who rose from poverty to become first Black New Jersey justice dies at 91

Updated: Former New Jersey Supreme Court Justice James H. Coleman Jr. died at age 91 on Aug. 2, rising from his childhood in a home without electricity and running water to become the first Black justice appointed to the state supreme court.

Aug 5, 2024 10:18 AM CDT

Duane Morris bestows partner title on powerless attorneys to shift tax and business costs, suit alleges

Duane Morris reduces business expenses and tax obligations for equity partners by shifting some of the burdens to lawyers who carry the partner title but have no equity or power in the law firm, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday.

Aug 1, 2024 10:55 AM CDT

Lawyer with muscular dystrophy shoots for the stars

Megan Parker was born with Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy. She has a limited range of motion and uses a motorized wheelchair for mobility. She also has a tracheostomy tube in her neck and breathes through a ventilator. Despite these challenges, Parker persevered through college and law school, graduating with both a JD and an LLM.

Aug 1, 2024 1:30 AM CDT

Book shares a female associate’s experiences with harassment in BigLaw 30 years later

In Look What You Made Me Do: Confronting Heartbreak & Harassment in Big Law, lawyer-turned-author Erin Gordon recounts her alienation as a young associate in the early 1990s—almost 25 years before the #MeToo movement.

Aug 1, 2024 1:10 AM CDT

Lewis Brisbois settles one former partner’s lawsuit; second is pending

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith has settled a race and disability lawsuit filed by a Black former partner who cited remarks in emails by two partners who hired him.

Jul 31, 2024 12:20 PM CDT

6th Circuit refuses to block school’s pronoun policy; dissent makes belief-in-ghosts comparison

A federal appeals court has refused to block a school policy banning the misgendering of transgender students.

Jul 30, 2024 2:31 PM CDT

Who is Doug Emhoff? Harris’s husband could be the first first gentleman

Lawyer Doug Emhoff made history as America’s first male vice-presidential spouse, and who could do so again in November if Harris were to win the presidency.

Jul 24, 2024 9:01 AM CDT

As a prosecutor, Kamala Harris ‘tried to bridge the tricky divide’

Before she became a U.S. senator, the vice president and the potential Democratic nominee for president, Kamala Harris was a prosecutor in California who opposed the death penalty but defended capital punishment on behalf of the state. After graduating from the school formerly known as the University of California Hastings…

Jul 23, 2024 3:40 PM CDT

Harvard Law grad who sued over bar exam accommodations loses in 2nd Circuit

Updated: A graduate of Harvard Law School can’t sue for denial of her full requests for accommodations while taking the bar exam, a federal appeals court has ruled.

Jul 23, 2024 8:39 AM CDT