Johnson Controls GC: Firms Aren’t Fully Committed to Diversity

Many businesses struggle to recruit, retain, and promote female and minority professionals, but for lawyers, the struggle is on another level.

In a recent Washington Post op-ed , Stanford Professor Deborah Rhode argues that the legal profession may appear more diverse — especially with an increase in high-profile lawyers like the President, the First Lady, and newly minted attorney general Loretta Lynch — but one ugly fact remains: law practice remains the least inclusive profession in the United States.

Rhode argues further that lawyers aren’t doing enough to change that. There is widespread agreement that diversity is desirable, and that a ...