TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jun 5, 2017
Large law firms saw a small increase in diversity last year, but the gains did not extend to African-American lawyers, the ABA Journal reports. Minorities now make up 15.6 percent of the lawyers at the nation’s top 250 firms, up from 15 percent last year, and the percentage of minority partners increased 0.4 percentage points, to 8.6 percent. The percentage of African-Americans, however, did not change from the previous year. According to the American Lawyers's  diversity scorecard, Asian-American and Hispanic lawyers did expericnce gains in both number of lawyers and partners.