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Covid-19 hinders career development for lawyers from minority backgrounds, ACC study finds
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International Survey Emphasizes Pandemic’s Impact on Lawyers from Underrepresented Communities
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Leading industry organizations unveil first-of-its-kind collaborative survey that includes unvarnished input from lawyers around the globe about the effects of the COVID-19 impact on careers NEW YORK (PRWEB) May 13, 2021 In a revealing survey produced by the Association of Corporate Counsel Foundation (ACCF), the Association of Law Firm Diversity Professionals (ALFDP) and Thomson Reuters Institute, more than 400 lawyers from across the globe gauge whether steps taken to decrease barriers to making the legal industry more diverse are truly having a positive impact on lawyers’ careers. The collaborative survey, “Pandemic Nation: Understanding Its Impact on Lawyers from Underrepresented Communities,” was conducted earlier this year with legal professionals both in law firms and in-house legal departme
January 15, 2021 at 1:01 PM
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Yusuf Zakir (photo courtesy of Davis Wright Tremaine)
As we know all too well, 2020 was a challenging year for us as individuals, for the legal profession, and for the nation. But the year was not without its positive developments. In my view, the most significant positive change within Biglaw last year was an increased commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
In fact, I would describe 2020 as the year that Biglaw got serious about diversity. At Lateral Link, in practically every meeting we took with firms to discuss their talent needs, diversity was a central focus. And it wasn’t just all talk and no action, with firms boasting about their commitment to diversity but not doing anything differently. I saw many situations where firms really