The Black General Counsel Project: Albertsons’ Juliette Pryor

Juliette Pryor, executive vice president and general counsel of supermarket chain Albertsons Companies, Inc., wants firms to improve at elevating diverse lawyers to relationship partner roles, a key factor in giving these attorneys more clout.

Pryor said in a recent Bloomberg Law survey that when outside firms over her career have offered up a new relationship partner, they don’t put forward diverse lawyers.

“In every instance where I’ve had the opportunity to have a relationship partner who is female, LGBTQ+, Black, or another person of color, I sought it out. Always. I challenge firms to change that practice,” Pryor ...