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Race And Rapport: Homophily And Racial Disadvantage In Large Law Firms, Kevin Woodson
Race And Rapport: Homophily And Racial Disadvantage In Large Law Firms, Kevin Woodson
Law Faculty Publications
Over the past two decades, clients and other constituencies have pushed large law firms to pursue greater racial diversity in attorney hiring and retention. Although these firms have devoted extraordinary resources toward better recruiting and retaining attorneys of color, and despite a proliferation of “best practices” guides and diversity policy recommendations, these considerable efforts have yielded only modest gains. With respect to black attorneys in particular, the tide of racial progress in these firms has moved forward at a glacial pace, even ebbing and receding in recent years.
Although large law firms now hire significant numbers of black attorneys as …
Dedication To Dean Timothy L. Coggins: "A Goodbye, And Thank You, To Tim Coggins", W. Clark Williams
Dedication To Dean Timothy L. Coggins: "A Goodbye, And Thank You, To Tim Coggins", W. Clark Williams
Law Faculty Publications
At the close of the 2014-15 academic year, the law school will say goodbye to one of our most valued faculty colleagues and administrative leaders, as Associate Dean for Library and Information Services Timothy Coggins retires. Dean Coggins has made some of the most significant contributions in recent memory to the enhanced stature of the law school. His impact has been deep and profound, not only within the law library and the delivery of information services, but more broadly throughout the law school community.