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Solving For Law Firm Inclusion: The Necessity Of Lawyer Well-Being, Katrina Lee
Solving For Law Firm Inclusion: The Necessity Of Lawyer Well-Being, Katrina Lee
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
Chances are, in a room of one hundred law firm partners in the United States, at most, one Black woman would be present. Statistically, if there were a Black, Latinx, or Asian woman in that room, she would be the only one. Women of color make up only 3.79 percent of all partners, counting equity and nonequity partners. The percentage of Black women among all partners has remained solidly under one percent—0.57 percent in 2009 and 0.80 percent in 2020. And so, women of color lawyers starting at law firms inevitably enter spaces that are overwhelmingly white and male—spaces where …