IndyBar: Remembering and Honoring Their Contributions: A Celebration of AAPI Heritage Month
In Indiana, Asian Pacific Americans make up 1.8% of the population and is the fastest growing minority group in the legal community nationwide.
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Rokita, other GOP state attorneys push back on Biden’s proposed diversity rules for apprenticeship programs
A Biden administration plan to promote diversity and equity in workplace apprenticeship programs is facing pushback from Republican attorneys general in Indiana and nearly two dozen other states who assert it amounts to race-based discrimination.
‘Home away from home’: IU Maurer Black Law Students Association earns national recognition
A student group at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law is getting national attention after winning an award.
Supreme Court leaves in place admissions plan at elite Virginia public high school
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday left in place the admissions policy at an elite public high school in Virginia that some parents claimed discriminates against highly qualified Asian Americans.
DEI opponents are using a 1866 Civil Rights law to challenge equity policies in the workplace
Opponents of workplace diversity programs are increasingly banking on a section of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to challenge equity policies as well as funding to minority-owned businesses.
Lawsuit alleges Wisconsin Bar Association minority program is unconstitutional
A conservative law firm filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday alleging that the State Bar of Wisconsin’s “diversity clerkship program” unconstitutionally discriminates based on race.
Creating opportunities: Mills to retire from Barnes after trailblazing career
Being a first and an only is something Barnes & Thornburg LLP partner Alan Mills has worked to prevent from happening ever again.
NAPABA brings annual convention to Indianapolis: November event to feature speakers, panel discussions on AANHPI issues
The convention is an annual gathering of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander attorneys, judges, law professors and law students and features dozens of speakers and a full agenda of panel discussions and continuing legal education programs.
Lee: ‘The look’ vs. ‘the sigh’
You’ve heard of “the look,” right? The one that people of color sometimes receive when they enter a store, walk down the street or just exist? I did not even realize “the look” existed until I was an adult.
‘It’s a societal challenge’: Why patent law has a diversity problem
According to data collected through the American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law, there are more patent attorneys and agents named Michael in the U.S. than there are racially diverse women.
Wright: Acknowledging implicit bias to support a culture of DEI
For any changes to truly be effective, all members of an organization must acknowledge their own implicit biases and actively interrupt them.
Law schools adjust to affirmative action ruling: Admissions processes tweaked to comply with US Supreme Court opinion
It’s been a little more than three months since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions. Although the decision didn’t necessarily take law schools by surprise, it forced them to quickly adapt their admissions processes.
Walker and Slaughter: The role of mentorship in retaining early-career attorneys
The coming years expect an increase in diverse early-career attorneys in law firms. Proactive mentorship can help retain them into partnership but will require both the firms and the early-career attorneys to be open-minded in the mentoring relationships.
Williamson: Maintaining DEI programs after recent SCOTUS decision
When making employment and promotion decisions, employers may continue to promote DEI initiatives. The key is to focus on the underlying causes of disadvantage rather than explicitly focusing on race.
Felts becomes ISBA president, legal leaders provide updates at assembly meeting
Friday marked a historic moment for the Indiana State Bar Association as the bar inducted its first president who is also concurrently a judge and heard from legal leaders from across the state about updates in the Indiana legal profession.
West Point sued over using race as admissions factor in wake of landmark Supreme Court ruling
West Point was accused in a federal lawsuit Tuesday of improperly using race and ethnicity as factors in admissions by the same group behind the legal challenge that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court striking down affirmative action in college admissions.
IndyBar: Strengthening Our Legal Community
As part of the effort to support a greater pipeline of Hispanic citizens into the practice of law and to strengthen the bench, IndyBar’s Hispanic Lawyers Division is hosting, “Strengthening the Bench: Equity, Inclusivity, and the Path to Judicial Selection.”
Chinn and Boswell: Students for Fair Admissions: Why it matters and what’s next
Since the SFFA opinion was handed down, legal scholars and practitioners across the country have been grappling with the full extent of the holding.
IndyBar: Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with IndyBar’s Hispanic Lawyers Division
Sept. 15 is a meaningful date for the Hispanic Lawyers Division.
Former justice Selby leads inaugural class of Diversity in Law honorees
Indiana Lawyer is pleased to announce its inaugural class of Diversity in Law honorees, including the inaugural Diversity Trailblazer, former Indiana Supreme Court Justice Myra Selby.