{"id":75591,"date":"2021-06-02T12:30:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T16:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=75591"},"modified":"2021-06-01T16:19:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T20:19:43","slug":"16-biglaw-firms-have-no-black-partners-including-firm-ranked-no-1-for-diversity-cassens-weiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/06\/02\/16-biglaw-firms-have-no-black-partners-including-firm-ranked-no-1-for-diversity-cassens-weiss\/","title":{"rendered":"16 BigLaw firms have no Black partners, including firm ranked No. 1 for diversity [Cassens Weiss]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/sixteen-larger-law-firms-have-no-black-partners-including-firm-ranked-no.-1-for-diversity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>16 BigLaw firms have no Black partners, including firm ranked No. 1 for diversity<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from abajournal.com by Debra Cassens Weiss<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Many law firms that ranked relatively well on the American Lawyer\u2019s 2021 Diversity Scorecard have no Black partners, including an immigration law firm ranked No. 1 for diversity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The number of Black partners increased only slightly last year, rising from 2.1% to 2.2%,\u00a0Law.com\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Law firms with no Black partners that ranked well on the\u00a02021 Diversity Scorecard\u00a0are: Berry Appleman &amp; Leiden ranked No. 1 on the diversity scorecard; Wood Smith Henning &amp; Berman, ranked No. 6 on the diversity scorecard; Kobre &amp; Kim ranked No. 8 on the diversity scorecard; Irell &amp; Manella; ranked No. 9 on the diversity scorecard; and Knobbe Martens, ranked 15th on the scorecard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Law firms surveyed for the scorecard are among the nation\u2019s 200 top grossing firms (the Am Law 200) and the nation\u2019s 250 largest law firms (the National Law Journal 250).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 BigLaw firms have no Black partners, including firm ranked No. 1 for diversity &#8212; from abajournal.com by Debra Cassens Weiss Excerpt: Many law firms that ranked relatively well on the American Lawyer\u2019s 2021 Diversity Scorecard have no Black partners, including an immigration law firm ranked No. 1 for diversity. The number of Black partners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[851,174,825,833,285,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bias-diversity-equity-inclusion-dei","category-career-development","category-law-schools","category-legal-reform","category-legislation-legislatures","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75592,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75591\/revisions\/75592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}