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Law Firm Diversity
VAULT.COM and Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA) present 5th annual legal diversity career fair
(Please pass this forward to 2 and 3rd year law and lateral candidates.)
According to Claude Sheer, CEO of Vault.com., “The Vault/MCCA Legal Diversity Career Fair will offer a hands-on insider’s perspective of the progress that top firms are making to increase diversity and to advise minority, women and GLBT law students and associates…
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
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Are you biased based on skin colour?
Take this Harvard test and get your own (possibly surprising) results in five minutes.
Thank you to The Complete Lawyer for "Test Yourself For Hidden Bias" in the Surveys and Research section.
An improving world for women lawyers?
Two notes of optimism today for the legal profession:
“Forget the old stereotypes of law firms as inhospitable to women,” said Suzanne Riss, Editor in Chief, Working Mother magazine. “As Working Mother examined the practices of many of the nation’s law firms, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that a number have been quietly changing
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Office stress ruining women lawyers’ lives
“Women at modern-day law firms are so petrified of appearing unproductive that they sometimes conceal cancer or heart attacks to avoid being marginalized” according to Linda Robertson, a veteran Vancouver lawyer as reported in one of Canada’s top National Newspapers, The Globe and Mail, describing a session at The Canadian Bar Association annual meeting held…
“Women talk three times as much as men” – WRONG!!!
PROTECT ME!!! The Daily Mail (UK) is either the most fair-minded publication on the planet or the most confused – in an article titled "Women talk three times as much as men, says study" the near-ending reads:
Deborah Cameron, an Oxford University linguistics professor with a special interest in language and gender, said the amount …
Survey on Retention and Promotion of Women in Law Firms
In July of 2006, The National Association of Women Lawyers challenged law firms to double the number of women equity partners and for corporations to double the number of women chief legal officers by 2015.
The survey released today gives us a score – tells us where we are today, and it’s not a pretty…
Minority women held back in private law firms – study findings are shocking
Can the American Bar Association possibly be correct? If so, then:
"Eighty-one percent of minority women quit private law firms within five years because they get shunted into dead-end jobs and aren’t welcomed the way other new employees are, according to an American Bar Association report."
This according to a news report today in the…
Even Humor has Rules
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. Mark Twain
Rajesh Setty of Life BEYOND CODE in his post "Ways to distinguish yourself #153 – Use humor right!" has some importanmt rules for the use of humor that we have long subscribed to in Edge. Check it out!
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