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The Most Influential Minority Lawyers
The National Law Journal begins this week's profile of the 50 most influential minority lawyers in the United States with this sobering reminder: Minority lawyers make up just 5.4 percent of partners at U...

Minority-owned Miami firm gobbles up Hispanic-owned Houston firm
On Sept. 8, the country?s largest certified minority-owned firm, Miami-based Adorno & Yoss, announced it now has an office in Houston and a new global immigration practice group. The expansion came courtesy of the acquisition of Monty Partners, a Hispanic-owned...

General Motors drives the use of minority and women lawyers on its matters, with targets
?For its law firms, GM sets a target of 20 percent minority lawyers and 33 percent women lawyers of the total number of lawyers working on GM matters per firm it hires.? This quote comes from InsideCounsel, July 2008 at...

Yale Law Women Top Ten Family Friendly Firms
Here at Yale Law Women (YLW), Yale Law School?s resident women?s group, we have just completed our third annual review of family friendly policies at the nation?s top law firms. After surveying Vault?s Top 100 firms, we have analyzed the data to produce YLW?s Top Ten Family Friendly Firms List...

Firm becomes certified as a women's business enterprise
Spencer Crain Cubbage Healy & McNamara, a majority-women-owned firm in Dallas, recently became one of 19 firms in Texas to be certified as a Women?s Business Enterprise by the Women?s Business Enterprise Alliance, a regional certifying partner of the Women?s...

Microsoft Willing to Pay for Diversity
Well, if law firms won't increase the number of women and minority hires because it's the right thing to do or even because it's what clients want, then by golly, maybe they'll do it for cash...