Category Archives: Diversity

Breaking the big firm

By Jordan Furlong | Published: September 21, 2009
My strongest, greatest fear by far, if it’s not too soon to look to the “other side” of this financial system meltdown and general economic interregnum, is not that things in law-land will look overly different when we emerge, but that they won’t look different enough. That observation comes from Bruce MacEwen of Adam Smith [...]
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Branding, blogging and the attention economy

By Jordan Furlong | Published: October 7, 2008
Every online community loves a meta-conversation, a discussion about the community itself, and the blawgosphere is no exception. But even by those standards, the explosion of posts ignited by a law.com article on women law bloggers was remarkable for its strength and immediacy. Published yesterday, the article posited a relative absence of women blawggers (rather ironically, [...]
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Preaching to the choir about innovation

By Jordan Furlong | Published: August 22, 2008
Legal Times reports the release (2nd ed.) of Fair Measure: Toward Effective Attorney Evaluations, by the ABA’s Commission on Women in the Profession. Fair Measure offers law firms instructions and materials to help them conduct performance evaluations free from gender bias. And it offers us a useful prism through which to view the most important [...]
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Towards diversity in law firms

By Jordan Furlong | Published: April 23, 2008
Diversity in the practice of law has been on my mind the last few days. Partly it’s thanks to a confluence of events, such as the second annual Call to Action: General Counsels’ Summit on Diversity, which starts tomorrow in Arizona and gathers 150 top GCs to find ways to increase diversity among their own [...]
Also posted in Big Firms | 3 Comments

What diversity looks like today

By Jordan Furlong | Published: February 14, 2008
Back in November, before this blog started up, the National Association of Law Placement published some analyses of its 2007-08 NALP Directory of Legal Employers, an annual compendium of legal employer data. You may have already seen these results, and I apologize for the redundancy if so, but they only belatedly caught my eye [...]
Also posted in Demographics | 1 Comment

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