Lawyers of Color — Check Out Texas!

I can’t believe I’m saying this: Maybe Texas is no longer the last place I want to be on earth. I say this as someone who spent most of my childhood and all of my adolescence trying to get the hell out of Texas—something which I’ve achieved spectacularly by living in Manhattan for over three decades.

Why am I softening on Texas these days? The immediate reason is that I recently returned from Austin where I attended the University of Texas’s 2022 Women’s Power Summit on Law & Leadership. I met a lot of awesomely smart women from all ...