Bloomberg’s Big Law Business to host two events on diversity issues in legal industry
BLOOMBERG BNA – The first event, scheduled for Oct. 29 in New York City, will convene a group of legal industry leaders to speak to the challenges facing large law firms and legal departments in promoting and retaining diverse talent. The San Francisco event will also be half-day and take place on Nov. 4.
Read More about Bloomberg’s Big Law Business to host two events on diversity issues in legal industryHawaii Law to release new volume on Native Hawaiian law
MAUI NOW – The University of Hawaiʻi this week unveils a new volume on Native Hawaiian law during a special book signing reception at the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court and UH Law School.
Read More about Hawaii Law to release new volume on Native Hawaiian lawEducation gap between affluent and less privileged is wider than ever
THE NEW YORK TIMES – For all the progress in improving educational outcomes among African-American children, the achievement gaps between more affluent and less privileged children is wider than ever, notes Sean Reardon of the Center for Education Policy Analysis at Stanford. Today the biggest threat to the American dream is class.
Read More about Education gap between affluent and less privileged is wider than everSupreme Court clerkships lack diversity
SLATE – The lists of feeder judges reveal that the feeders tend to be, overwhelmingly, white and male. And so the question arises: Does the lack of female and minority feeder judges lead to a corresponding lack of female and minority clerks?
Read More about Supreme Court clerkships lack diversityMaine Law Dean Danielle Conway highlights need to help underserved communities
Maine Public Broadcasting Network (NPR MAINE) – Danielle Conway, the new dean of the University of Maine Law School, is African-American, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves and a scholar with a special focus on communities with limited access to legal services.
Read More about Maine Law Dean Danielle Conway highlights need to help underserved communitiesFormer UCLA Law Dean Emerita Rachel F. Moran leads research initiative on growing Latino population
BLOOMBERG BNA – The American Bar Foundation announced Tuesday that UCLA Law School Dean Emerita Rachel F. Moran will chair its new research initiative on the laws and policies needed to serve the growing Latino population in the U.S.
Read More about Former UCLA Law Dean Emerita Rachel F. Moran leads research initiative on growing Latino populationLack of diversity in prosecutors a contributing factor to high minority incarceration rate
THE DAILY BEAST – Since prosecutors convict 86 percent of the prison population, this means a nearly all-white cadre of attorneys is putting a disproportionately black cohort of defendants in jail. In fact, the racial divide among prosecutors correlates with how they unequally treat black and white defendants.
Read More about Lack of diversity in prosecutors a contributing factor to high minority incarceration rateStudy: Prosecutors in Louisiana parish three times as likely to exclude potential African-American jurors
THE NEW YORK TIMES – In Louisiana’s Caddo Parish, where Shreveport is the parish seat, a study to be released Monday has found that prosecutors used peremptory challenges three times as often to strike black potential jurors as others during the last decade.
Read More about Study: Prosecutors in Louisiana parish three times as likely to exclude potential African-American jurorsUnderrepresentation of African-Americans as law firm partners
THE NEW YORK TIMES – Only 5.6 percent of lawyers who hold top leadership positions at law firms are anything other than white, according to a study by the National Association for Law Placement.
Read More about Underrepresentation of African-Americans as law firm partnersPanel at the ABA Annual Meeting examines the business costs of ignoring diversity
ABA JOURNAL – The benefits of having a diverse workplace are well-established. In fact, a lack of diversity can even have a negative effect on the bottom line. So why haven’t law firms taken account of the business benefits of diversity?
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