Minority Issues
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Biglaw
Numbers Are Up For Women In Biglaw, But Certain Minorities Continue To Fall Behind
As usual, we're forced to celebrate fractional progress for diversity and inclusion within Biglaw firms. -
Courts
A Concrete Proposal For Improving Diversity In Law Clerk Hiring
Here's an excellent idea, from Judge Vince Chhabria (N.D. Cal.). - Sponsored
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms. -
Women's Issues
This Pioneering Black Woman Lawyer Can Really Tell You What 'Justice' Means
That people today are more interested in what justice means will hopefully make them more aware of injustice and willing to speak out about it.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 12.26.18
* The D.C. Circuit awarded more than $501M in damages to the family of Otto Warmbier, the student who tortured so badly in North Korea that he was left deaf, blind, unable to speak, and died shortly after he returned home. [New York Times]
* Trump’s DOJ has filed many emergency SCOTUS requests to bypass lower courts, but here are the ones to watch: the asylum ban, the DACA wind-down, the transgender military ban, the citizenship census, and kids’ climate change. [PBS NewsHour]
* Ex-district judge and U.S. AG Michael Mukasey says Bill Barr is “probably the best-qualified nominee for U.S. attorney general since Robert Jackson in 1940.” Mukasey has also linked “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” to Islamic terrorism. [Wall Street Journal]
* Not even a weird video in character as Frank Underwood can help him now: Kevin Spacey has been accused of sexually assaulting a minor and is scheduled to be arraigned on a felony charge of indecent assault and battery. [Boston Globe]
* In case you missed it,after declaring war against the lack of diversity in the arbitration world, rapper Jay-Z managed to get the American Arbitration Association to commit to expanding its roster of black arbitrators. [Hollywood Reporter]
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Biglaw
Women And Minorities Continue To Receive Short End Of The Stick In Biglaw And On The Bench
Do you think things will ever change? -
Biglaw
Biglaw Firm Whose Latest Partnership Did No Favors For Diversity Pledges To 'Do Better' Next Time
The firm's chairman hopes this PR nightmare won't 'erase the firm’s diversity achievements over the past 75 years.' -
Biglaw, Celebrities
Jay-Z Declares War... Against The Lack Of Diversity In The Arbitration World
Could Hova be the savior of diversity in the world of ADR? -
Labor / Employment, On The Job
Wanna Know What B**ches, Black Beans, And King Kong Have In Common?
Think our workplaces are enlightened places with equality for all? Think again. - Sponsored
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so… -
Law Schools
Your Law School’s Predominantly White Male Faculty Profile Pics
Your law school really sucks at hiring, and that's why your faculty lacks diversity. -
Women's Issues
Water Is Wet, The Sky Is Blue, And Women And Minorities Continue To Face Bias In The Legal Profession
This bias and discrimination against women and minorities in our profession has to end. -
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Crime
Why The Brooklyn D.A.'s Office Is Way Cooler Than Manhattan's
Brooklyn is addressing some big policy issues relating to criminal justice in efforts to make the system more fair to people of color and immigrants in their community. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.07.18
* In case you missed it, Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh refused to condemn President Donald Trump’s attacks on the judiciary (specifically, his insults of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg), refused to say whether he believed same-sex marriage was a constitutional right, and once again denied discussing the Mueller probe with anyone at Kasowitz Benson. What will happen today? [Washington Post]
* President Donald Trump has reportedly called Attorney General Jeff Sessions “a dumb Southerner” and an “idiot” without an Ivy League law degree who “couldn’t even be a one-person country lawyer down in Alabama.” This Alabama Law professor wonders what’s so bad about a degree from Alabama Law. [New York Times]
* Per a new study from the American Bar Association, the sky is blue and women and minorities continue to face racial and gender bias within the legal profession. But, here are some tools to fight these problems. [DealBook / New York Times]
* Allen & Overy has published its 2018 gender pay gap figures, and it’s the first U.K. firm to include data from its “overwhelmingly male” partners in its disclosures. A&O’s median gender pay gap is 39 percent, a slight improvement. [Financial Times]
* It seems that the Justice Department no longer thinks that employers should be forced to consider job applicants with criminal histories, going against Obama-era guidance that the EEOC has been following since 2012. [National Law Journal]
* In an historic opinion, India’s Supreme Court ruled that gay sex between adults is not a crime, casting aside an “irrational, arbitrary, and incomprehensible” colonial-era law that made the act a punishable offense within the country. [Times of India]
* Fire alarms sounded at Miami Law as smoke poured through vents into a student lounge, and some students evacuated their classrooms, but others ran back in to save their laptops. Well, obviously — they’re law students, after all. [Miami Hurricane]
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Biglaw
These Biglaw Firms Are Officially Diversity Certified
Year 1 of a system to get Biglaw firms to consider women or minority candidates for leadership roles at the firm. -
Government
Your Home Is Your Castle, Unless You’re Poor
Do people who make agency rules ever consider basic human dignity? -
Intellectual Property
Closing The Patent Gap
Access to professional guidance should lead to more issued patents for female and minority inventors. -
Intellectual Property
The Minority Gender Patent Gap
A minority gap in patenting -- just like other gaps -- is detrimental for our innovation system. -
Law Schools
The Law Schools With The Most Diverse Graduates
What is your law school doing to promote diversity? -
Sponsored Content, Technology
What Does AI Mean For Ethics And Diversity?
Dr. Tonya Custis of Thomson Reuters offers her insights. -
Women's Issues
'Diversity Fatigue' In A Profession Where There's Not Enough Diversity
Diversity fatigue at any level is a ridiculous excuse for not doing what needs to be done in the legal profession.