The Commission on Professionalism is pleased to announce the release of a Profiles in Professionalism video featuring Justice Rita B. Garman (Ret.).
[…] program to others. Fortunately, there is not much debate on the value of mentoring for new lawyers. According to a 2013 National Association for Law Placement ( NALP) study, The State of Mentoring in the Legal Profession, nearly 90% of all law firms surveyed offered some form of mentoring programs. For firms of more […]
[…] how their software can make your law practice more efficient and accessible to clients, put the ABA Techshow on your radar for 2018. April You might remember NALP from those law firm reports you read in law school. NALP is an association of over 2500 legal career professionals. Its Annual Education conference is the […]
Last month, I spoke about increasing diversity and inclusion at the NALP Annual Education conference. My co-presenters and I discussed recruiting and retaining millennials of color. The hypothetical scenario we used was Marcus, a third year black law student, and Jim, the white male managing partner at a fictional international law firm called Walker Cross. After […]
[…] nearly the same between the Class of 2014 and 2015. Despite the decline in enrollment, the unemployment rate hovered at about 9.7%. Fast forward to August and NALP has more to add to the story. News that may offer a glimpse of hope to current and future law students, as well as, recent law […]
Did you know only 1 percent of attorneys in the top 100 corporate law firms are members of minority groups? And as NALP reported this past January, among employers listed in its NALP Directory of Legal Employers, only 7.52% of partners were minorities. Meanwhile, the National Association for Women Lawyers reported that the pay […]
The National Association for Law Placement (NALP) recently announced record-breaking lawyer diversity growth among women, people of color, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) legal professionals in its annual Report on Diversity at U.S. Law Firms.
[…] earlier, although the U.S. population is 5.9% Asian. Though underrepresentation of people of color in the legal profession is concerning, the National Association for Law Placement’s ( NALP) 2020 Report on Diversity in U.S. Law Firms noted that for the first time, more than 10% of all law firm partners were lawyers of color. […]
In December 2019, the National Association for Law Placement ( NALP) released its annual Report on Diversity in U.S. Law Firms. Across the board, progress for women and people of color is, to quote the report commentary, “at a rate so slow as to almost seem imperceptible at times.” Additionally, a recent report from […]
[…] to diversity or they’ll take their business elsewhere. The open letter comes on the heels of dismal law firm diversity numbers from the National Association for Law Placement ( NALP) and an online debate sparked by Paul Weiss’ all-white and majority male partner class. Paul Weiss has since outlined steps to improve diversity. The letter, which […]
[…] internalized and unconsciously impact our daily decisions. Implicit bias likely fuels the continued underrepresentation of minorities in the legal profession. The National Association for Law Placement ( NALP) reports in its April 2018 bulletin that 81.3 percent of equity partners are men, 18.7 percent are women, and 6.1 percent are minority men and women […]
Each year, the National Association for Law Placement ( NALP) releases statistics on minority representation in the legal profession. The 2016 numbers have gone up, slightly. Minority attorneys still haven’t made a significant dent in the overall composition of lawyers in American law firms. According to the 2016 report, from 2015-2016, the number of […]
