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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...

But only if firms can seize it.

Global Finance and Investment Management Firm Buford Capital’s recent announcement of its Equity Project, a $50 million pool of capital earmarked for financing commercial litigation and arbitration matters with a woman-led counsel team, illuminates another source of pressure on top firms to make progress on equity....