Sentences with phrase «greater diversity in the legal profession»

The firm is committed to supporting efforts designed to achieve greater diversity in the legal profession.

Yet the available data strongly suggests that these efforts have not resulted in greater diversity in the legal profession.

Not exact matches

The list of past courses shows the great diversity and richness of this Association, and its efforts to provide its members and others in the profession with the opportunity to broaden their knowledge and understanding of legal systems and issues in various parts of the world.

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.

Mentoring and diversity are receiving a great deal of attention in the legal profession these days.

CASAL's mission is to support and promote initiatives that value diversity and advancement of all South Asian lawyers and law students, within the legal profession throughout Canada; to provide a forum for professional networking and development of all South Asian lawyers, through continuing legal education, mentorship, advocacy, legal scholarship and greater community involvement; to foster excellence in the quality of legal services provided to all Canadians.

As in the U.S., the British have recognized racial, ethnic, and gender disparities in the legal profession and have pursued strategies for greater diversity and upward mobility in the bar and bench.