Tag Archives: Helise Harrington

Unconscious Bias and Attrition

A former associate recently sued Clifford Chance for discrimination under New York City’s Human Rights Law for discrimination based on race and gender.  She claimed that the firm targeted minorities and women when it laid off six associates in November …

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Our history, race and the law — a different possibility?

I recently went to a lecture entitled “Race, Law and Women’s Rights” given by Professor Gloria Brown-Marshall, Associate Professor at John Jay College (CUNY).  In the talk, Professor Brown-Marshall wove a vibrant tapestry of the interaction of American law and …

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Generations

I saw a quote the other day that could have been written by any number of law firm partners I know about younger law firm associates — members of the so-called Gen Y generation, sometimes called the “Internet generation” or …

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