Diversity - Call To Action (CTA) Summit
General Mills' Roderick Palmore
According to Roderick Palmore, executive vice president, general counsel and chief compliance and risk management officer at General Mills Inc:
"The statistics speak for themselves. They say our progress in the profession has been disappointing."
Attention Managing Partners:
More than 100 general counsel executives of Fortune 500 companies and managing partners of U.S. law firms are convening next month in an effort to come up with specific ways to improve diversity in the legal profession Managing Partners
The 100 GC’s (in addition to Palmore from general Mills), will include the likes of
General Mills Inc.
The Boeing Co.
Prudential Financial Inc.
Microsoft Corp.
Johnson & Johnson
Tyson Foods Inc.
The Coca-Cola Co.
Bank of America Corp.
See the full story at Law.com in Amanda Bronstad’s piece today called GCs and Law Firm Managing Partners to Convene Over Diversity (also the source of Palmore's photo in this post)
I am a partner at the Chicago based legal search firm of Winston And Green. We have been committed to recruiting highly qualified African American, Asian and Latino attorneys since 1991. The numbers at law firms shrink and does not rise. I have seen corporate legal become more diverse with people of color and women becoming GC's and group heads while the law firm numbers will jump for a quick minute and then fall. I am on board and if we can help call us and we will find you quality people.
Thanks,
Larry A. Green
312-201-9777
lgreen@winstonandgreen.com