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Margaret TaylorThursday 3 June 2021
In the wake of Black Lives Matter protests and the George Floyd murder trial, serious questions are being asked about how to deal with deep-seated racial disparities throughout society, including the justice system and the legal profession.
No sector of society has been left untouched by the global reckoning that followed the racially motivated killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin last May. As the Black Lives Matter movement mobilised to call out discrimination in all its forms the legal profession was forced to address its own record on racial diversity and inclusion. In the UK, a flurry of firms signed up to Rare’s Race Fairness Commitment while their counterparts in the US got together to form the Law Firm Antiracism Alliance ‘to better use the law as a vehicle for change that benefits communities of color and to promote racial equity in the law’.