Black general counsel lost 6% of their representation within the Fortune 1000 last year, according to a new survey, even as the legal industry and major corporations made broader pushes for increased diversity.
The Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s latest annual Fortune 1000 survey released Monday indicated that the nation’s highest-revenue companies generally have made only limited progress growing diversity atop their law departments. But Black lawyers had the hardest time in 2020, with a net loss of three general counsel seats.
Overall, Black general counsel last year were still the largest racial minority among ...
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