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Sara Lee General Counsel Roderick Palmore’s “Call to Action: Diversity in the Legal Profession”
Nearly 100 Chief Legal Officers / General Counsel have signed on to Sara Lee General Counsel Roderick Palmore’s “Call to Action: Diversity in the Legal Profession,” which states:
As Chief Legal Officers, we hereby reaffirm our commitment to diversity in the legal profession. Our action is based on the need to enhance opportunity in the legal profession and our recognition that the legal and business interests of our clients require legal representation that reflects the diversity of our employees, customers and the communities where we do business. In furtherance of this renewed commitment, this is intended to be a Call to Action for the profession generally, in particular for our law departments, and for the law firms with which our companies do business.
In an effort to realize a truly diverse profession and to promote diversity in law firms, we commit to taking action consistent with the referenced Call to Action. To that end, we pledge that we will make decisions regarding which law firms represent our companies based in significant part on the diversity performance of the firms. We intend to look for opportunities for firms we regularly use which positively distinguish themselves in this area. We further intend to end or limit our relationships with firms whose performance consistently evidences a lack of meaningful interest in being diverse.
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ABA Presidential Advisory Council on Diversity and the Law School Admission Council’s Pipeline Diversity Directory
Created by the ABA and the Law School Admission Council in response to the critical need to increase diversity in the educational pipeline leading to the legal profession, the Directory is an ever-growing online searchable database of projects, programs and initiatives that encourage and equip minority students to pursue legal careers. It includes programs sponsored by law schools, law firms, in-house counsel, bar associations, other organizations, and collaborations that promote law careers for racially and ethnically diverse students across the nation.
