In April, CCIE launched its innovative, interactive website -www.legalinclusiveness.org - and already the site is receiving accolades. The National Association for Law Placement (NALP) promoted the site in their newsletter and touted CCIE's 350+ page online manual, Beyond Diversity: Inclusiveness in the Legal Workplace, as "one of the most impressive resources available." 

 

CCIE Executive Director Kathleen Nalty & CCIE Board Member Patricia Powell (Hummons Consulting). Space still available.
Location:  Faegre & Benson LLP

Cost: Free/Includes Breakfast   Credit: 1 General/.9 Ethics

June 17 [8:00 to 9:30 am]
Glass Ceilings and Dead Ends: The Future of Women Lawyers at Large Firms
Professor Eli Wald (DU Sturm College of Law)
Location:  Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Cost: $30 ($15 CCIE Pilot members/law students)   

June 28 [11:30 am to 1:30 pm]

Skeptical? A Conversation about Diversity and Inclusiveness
Dr. Arin Reeves (The Athens Group)
Location:  Holland & Hart LLP
Cost: $50 ($25 CCIE Pilot members/law students)  

The ABA's Commission on Women in the Profession held the first ever regional summit for in-house counsel last week in Philadelphia.  Attendees of the summit learned the results of a study that asked nearly 700 female partners how they are compensated, assigned work, and promoted in their firms.  The study also revealed how little the client perspective plays into which attorneys get their work. Since client  relations and billable hours are measurements for compensation and promotion within firms, who is chosen to work for a client is critically important. Read the article discussing the survey and what female General Counsel are encouraged to do to help give work to female attorneys within firms by clicking here.

Under pressure from Congress, the federal judiciary is working to hire more minority law clerks at the district and appeals court levels, while acknowledging that "there is significant room for improvement" in the diversity of clerks.

 

The Judicial Conference of the United States is focused on its hiring practices as part of a response to questions from a House budget subcommittee last year about the lack of minority law clerks. The judiciary's policymaking body also compiled statistics on the percentage of minority law clerks during the past seven years which have not been widely publicized before now.  Click here to see the statistics and learn more.

Latino high school students interested in pursuing a legal career can apply to the 2010 Future Latino Leaders Law Camp. The high school camp is sponsored by the Hispanic National Bar Foundation. The free, one-week immersion program will take place in Washington, DC, July 3 - 11, 2010. Visit the HNBF website for the application form and more information.

President Obama's judicial nominations are more diverse than  President George W. Bush's  nominations, according to a study from the Brookings Institution. A comparison of their nominations during  their first 14 months of office found  Obama nominated more women and ethnic minorities for the federal bench than President Bush.  Read full study.