Law.com bloggers and co-hosts, J. Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi welcome Attorney Fred Alvarez, chair of the ABA Commission on Opportunities for Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession and award recipients Attorney Richard A. Soden, of counsel to the Boston office of the national law firm of Goodwin Procter LLP and Justice Dan Sosa Jr., retired Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court, to talk
about diversity in the legal profession.
When speaking or writing
about diversity in the legal profession, the conversation usually focuses on gender, sexual orientation or race and ethnicity.
Not exact matches
I've written extensively
about the need for
diversity in the
legal profession, and for
legal education to be more innovative and accessible.
I've written a lot
in these pages
about the issues of
diversity and equality — much of it directly related to maintaining the number of women
in the
legal profession.
«There should be no glory
in striving for
diversity; it's
about jointly improving access to the
legal profession for the brightest and best irrespective of social advantage or other personal characteristics,» says Barry Matthews, director of
legal affairs and third - party sales at ITV.
This site — and plenty of others — have a depressing amount of posts
about the lack of
diversity in the
legal profession regarding both women and people of color.
You might be frustrated at how best to achieve greater
diversity in a
profession that remains too white, middle - class, and male to differing degrees
in differing parts; you might be anxious
about how you are going to pay your way through law school and how much debt you are going to have at the end of it; alternatively, you might well be vexed
about the oversupply of graduates who never achieve
legal careers; you might be concerned
about preserving the unique identity of your
profession (as many at the Bar are); or you might just want to ensure that new recruits
in law firms have a basic grip of the fundamentals and can do something useful on day one.
The event is viewed as an opportunity to celebrate
diversity within the
legal profession, to show support for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lawyers
in Nova Scotia, and to allow lawyers to learn
about the unique
legal issues faced by the LGBTTI community.
Huq also questioned Truss on
diversity in the
legal profession, referring to research by YLAL
about the salaries of junior
legal aid lawyers and asking if the Lord Chancellor would consider reinstating the training contract grant scheme which was abolished by the Coalition government
in 2010.
As a leader, I was appreciative of Dr. Reeves definitions of
diversity and inclusion and her analogies for why those of us involved
in the
legal profession should care
about diversity and inclusion.