Plaintiffs Bar Leaders Feeling Pressure to Make Deeper Diversity Improvements | National Law Journal - Law.com

What You Need to Know

• Governmental agencies and other large clients, along with courts, are looking for more diversity from plaintiffs firms.
• Diverse lawyers are sometimes feeling pressure to outperform in order to maintain the relatively new opportunities they are having to lead cases.
• Plaintiffs firms are hiring from HBCUs, doing more OCI and creating more fellowships to attract diverse talent.

Efforts to improve diversity in the legal profession have spread well beyond Big Law, with issues of recruitment and inclusion falling squarely at the feet of plaintiffs firms’ leaders. And many of them are finding a business imperative to get more effective on both fronts.

“If you get an appointment, you have to really knock it out of the park,” said Parvin K. Aminolroaya, a partner with Seeger Weiss and one of the first female attorneys of color to serve as a co-lead counsel in a multidistrict litigation mass tort.

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source: https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2021/12/06/plaintiffs-bar-leaders-feeling-pressure-to-make-deeper-diversity-improvements/

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