Walker Clark
Worldview Archives
Yes, diversity really is a priority.
The old excuse, still heard in many law firms around the word, that "diversity is not a priority for our clients or our firm" is not only misinformed, but in some cases could be a formula for long-range failure.
Women as Emerging Leaders of the Global Legal Profession
Women lawyers have substantially increased their presence and prominence in law firms worldwide, especially in the common-law jurisdictions of the Caribbean region.
This process is not finished.
Diversity: An Overlooked Asset in Law Firms
An article in the on-line edition of The Lawyer on 1 April 2014 paints a disappointing picture of the extent to which women have been able to move up into the senior ranks of partners at leading U.S. law firms in London.
Although the reasons for this poor showing vary from firm to firm, the bottom line is that these firms — like so many others in the United States and elsewhere — continue to ignore the importance of diversity to the business success of their organizations, and a few apparent antediluvians in the legal profession continue to dismiss diversity as irrelevant.
