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8 lut 2024 · In honor of Black History Month, we celebrate 7 modern-day pioneering Black women who’ve had an incredible legacy in the legal industry with hopes of encouraging and welcoming more young Black women’s voices into our profession.
African-American women lawyers in the United States face "dual discrimination" for being both Black and women. [1] As of 2022, less than 1% of law firm partners were Black women. [2] To fight against discrimination, Black women lawyers have founded numerous advocacy organizations.
This article, which is based on the findings presented in the full report, focuses specifically on issues of intersectionality by highlighting key areas in which gender differences among black law graduates are particularly salient.
23 lut 2017 · Kimberlé Crenshaw, a distinguished professor of law at both the UCLA School of Law and Columbia University Law School, recently was on Cosmopolitan’s list of black women, past and present, that "every American should know." Among the 10 were California U.S. Senator Kamala Harris and filmmaker and UCLA alumna Ava DuVernay.
4 gru 2023 · Roberta Liebenberg, one of The American Lawyer's 2023 Lifetime Achievement honorees, has blazed a path not only in the antitrust bar, but for women attorneys everywhere.
7 sie 2019 · In the legal field, a popular refrain parried at women and people of color is “you don’t look like a lawyer.”. A series of interviews with black female lawyers in elite law firms reveals a ...
From the first Black female lawyer to the most admired woman in the world, Black women have an incredible legacy in the legal profession. Here, we pay homage to just a few of them, including some of the earliest women lawyers in the country, period.
