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Are you a reporter looking to connect with a more diverse group of expert sources? You’ve come to the right place. As any journalist working in 2019 knows, one key to writing richer, more credible, and more nuanced stories is seeking out the voices of underrepresented people to provide information readers need. In working with our law firm leader clients, we encourage them to put forward the outstanding and high-potential women and people of color within their firms to provide technical...

A recent Law 360 Expert Analysis piece, "Diversity's Next Step: Developing Minority Partners," makes an incisive case for what law leaders must do to stem attrition of minority lawyers and ensure that they have opportunities to build their business and become...

The National Association for Law Placement recently published its 2018 Report on Diversity in U.S. Law Firms, with some promising results. The number of women in law firms has steadily increased for three years in a row and, overall, women and minorities managed to make small gains as partners. However, black representation among associates dropped in 2018.

Although the representation of women, minorities, and minority women...

Leaders of mid-size firms have good reason to be rattled by this recent piece on the surge in women-owned law firms. Women and minority lawyers who leave their firms before or after making partner are founding firms of...

A recent Major, Lindsey & Africa partner compensation survey underscores what many women partners reported in a separate questionnaire based on their own experiences: the pay...