Getting to the Truth

Autor/in	Roach, Ronald
Titel	Getting to the Truth
Quelle	In: Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 23 (2006) 21, S.24-29 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1557-5411
Schlagwörter	Lawyers; Whites; African Americans; Hispanic Americans; Cultural Pluralism; Law Schools; Affirmative Action; Disproportionate Representation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lawyer; Rechtsanwalt; White; Weißer; Afroamerikaner; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Kulturpluralismus
Abstract	In recent years, corporate executives and local bar association officials have increasingly questioned why so few of the nation's elite corporate law firms can claim significant racial and ethnic diversity among their partner or upper management ranks. Some organizations have even pledged to reward law firms that ensure high-level assignments for their minority attorneys and to penalize those firms that don't. Not surprisingly, a number of law professors from some of the nation's leading law schools have taken it upon themselves to examine why the leadership ranks of large corporate law firms remain essentially a White men's club. The question of diversity in the upper echelons of elite law firms has added fuel to an already heated academic debate about the role of affirmative action in the legal profession. This article presents a legal scholars' varying perspectives on the impediments to minority success in large law firms. The article further states that examining the cultures and practices of large firms promises will be a formidable task, because research evidence hasn't yet led to new practices and solutions. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10