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Diversity Reversing In Law Firms

November 24, 2015

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While women and minorities continue to make modest gains among partnership ranks, the percentage of associates who are women, and the number of African American associates, have gone down over the last five years. The numbers, reported this week by the National Association of Law Placement, indicate the legal industry may be going backwards on diversity. “It is troubling to see the numbers for women and African-American associates seemingly reversing course,” NALP Executive Director James Leipold said. “2015 marks the sixth year of decline in the representation of Black associates, and while the percentage decrease is small, the overall number itself was small to begin with, so any decline is significant, and the trend is distressing. For women, too, after years of small gains, the pattern of flat to declining representation among associates in law firms is disturbing.”

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