Black general counsel now make up more than 5% of all general counsel in the Fortune 1000, a key milestone first reported by Bloomberg Law in August and tracked by the Black General Counsel 2025 Initiative.
After our story ran, reporter Ruiqi Chen and I started work on a larger project inspired by this development. We put together a list of questions and reached out to more than 50 Black legal chiefs whose companies were in the Fortune 1000 in 2020 or in 2019. The idea? To give readers a firsthand look at the leadership strategies of these top ...