Law Firm Diversity: Five Reasons for the Slow Progress
BLOOMBERG LAW — There’s an exercise I do in my law firm diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) trainings. I call it the Ten-Year Challenge. I show a slide with race, ethnicity, and gender stats for large law firms 10 years ago. Then I show stats from this year. Then I ask my group, “What has changed?” The…
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THE WHITE HOUSE — Today, the White House and the Department of Justice announced 99 law schools have responded to the Attorney General’s Call to Action to the Legal Profession, issued on August 30, 2021, to address the housing and eviction crisis. The Attorney General’s Call to Action asked lawyers and law students to take immediate…
Read More about White House and Department of Justice recognize 99 law schools for action on eviction protectionControversial speech issues at law schools draw national attention
REUTERS — When Georgetown University Law Center placed new faculty member Ilya Shapiro on leave Monday over his comments regarding the race of President Biden’s future Supreme Court nominee, it joined a growing list of law schools embroiled lately in free speech disputes. The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Yale Law School and Stanford Law…
Read More about Controversial speech issues at law schools draw national attentionMerger talks end between University of Akron Law and CSU Cleveland-Marshall Law
IDEASTREAM PUBLIC MEDIA — Discussions of a merger between the law schools at the University of Akron and Cleveland State University are officially over. Crain’s Cleveland Business reports that members of an exploratory committee said the talks “fizzled” almost a year ago. The schools announced in August 2020 that they would explore a merger amid a decline in…
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ED UP LEGAL — Legal education is experiencing explosive applications; a call for innovation & adaptation; demand for increased diversification of the profession; & cries for social justice impact & protection of the Rule of Law. Host Patty Roberts, Dean of St. Mary’s University School of Law, will explore the opinions of legal education leaders regarding…
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ED UP LEGAL — Legal education is experiencing explosive applications; a call for innovation & adaptation; demand for increased diversification of the profession; & cries for social justice impact & protection of the Rule of Law. Host Patty Roberts, Dean of St. Mary’s University School of Law, will explore the opinions of legal education leaders regarding…
Read More about Podcast: University of Houston Law Center dean Leonard Baynes discusses leadership and the Black Lawyers Matter ConferenceABA considers mandatory bias training for law students under proposed rule
REUTERS — Law schools would have to train students in bias, racism and crosscultural competency under a proposal before the American Bar Association’s policymaking body this month. The ABA’s House of Delegates on Feb. 14 will consider a series of changes to its law school accreditation rules, including a new requirement that schools provide bias training at…
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AP NEWS — When Markicia Horton graduates this spring from the Texas Southern University’s Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston and takes the bar, she’ll be stepping into a world where a Black woman is set to be on the U.S. Supreme Court for the first time in its 232-year history. With Stephen Breyer’s retirement from…
Read More about What the new Supreme Court pick could mean for Black women lawyersIncoming University of Akron Law dean Emily Janoski-Haehlen discusses her vision for the school
AKRON LEGAL NEWS — It’s been just over five years since Emily Janoski-Haehlen first started at The University of Akron School of Law in January 2017. Initially hired as the director of the law library and an associate professor of law, she is now a full professor and serves as associate dean of academic affairs, law…
Read More about Incoming University of Akron Law dean Emily Janoski-Haehlen discusses her vision for the schoolUniversity at Buffalo Law recognized by White House for response to the eviction crisis
UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO — The University at Buffalo School of Law won recognition from the White House and Department of Justice for taking “immediate action to increase housing stability and access to justice” in Erie County during a remote ceremony from the White House on Friday. UB was among 99 U.S. law schools responding to the Attorney…
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