Asian American Women Are the Losers in Big Law

In Big Law’s diversity sweepstakes, guess who’s the runaway winner in scoring business from corporate clients?

“White women receive significantly more of the business that the respondents assign to diverse outside counsel,” finds a study by the Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession, noting that they beat out lawyers who are racial or ethnic minorities, LGBT+, or those with disabilities. “Well over half of the matters that respondents assigned to [diverse] outside counsel were assigned to White women lawyers who were given primary responsibility for the matters.”

It makes sense. White men dominate the top spots at major law ...