Diversity

• The Focus on Corporate Pro Bono (Diversity & the Bar)
  ACC's focus on the importance of in-house attorneys giving back to communities is featured in the July/August issue of Diversity & the Bar, where ACC President Frederick J. Krebs provides insight on Corporate Pro Bono, a national pro bono project of ACC and the Pro Bono Institute. To read the full story, visit ACC in the News.
  
  
• Inclusion Under Attack: A Strategic Advisory For Defending Workplace Diversity Efforts
  Many companies are concerned that their diversity initiatives could draw negative attention or backlash from non-minority employees and others. This article outlines how to consider and prepare for any such challenges.
  
  
• Corporate Legal Diversity Pipeline Program
  This is ACC's main pipeline initiative. Organized in coordination with Street Law, Inc., the program strives to encourage high school students of color to pursue law as a career by forming lasting partnerships between corporate legal departments and local high school law classes. To learn more about the program or get involved, visit the program website.
  
  
• Priming the Pipeline to Diversity in the Legal Profession
  If you want a diverse legal department, you must start at the source. Learn how to reach out to the children of your community, and give them a dream they can use to help themselves and strengthen society.
  

• McDonald's Legal Department Takes Law to the Street
  
  
• Taking Law To The Classroom

• Read an editorial by Veta Richardson
  (An ACC Alumnus who's now the ED of MCCA) on breaking down the "quality suffers" myth in diversity hiring.
  
  
• A Call To Action
  ACC endorsed BellSouth's Statement of Principle on Diversity when it was offered some year's ago, as did several hundred general counsel on behalf of their organizations. ACC is pleased to also endorse the more recent Call to Action, which was authored by ACC Board Member Roderick A. (Rick) Palmore, who is the general counsel of Sara Lee Corporation. Signatories to the Call to Action pledge to make diversity a significant priority in their legal departments and to encourage their law firms to do the same: toward that end, signatories agree to accord preference to firms that evidence their commitment to diversity, and to limit or end their relationships with firms that do not. If you are interested in joining the growing list of leading general counsel who have signed the Call to Action, please contact Mr. Palmore.
  
  
• Diverse Counsel
  ACC’s website for corporate counsel looking to find outside counsel of color: search the database for lawyers with specific expertise, from a particular firm, living in a specific geographic location, those with previous in-house experience, and much more.
  

• ACC InfoPAK- Achieving Diversity in Law Departments
  
  
• ACC Leading Practice Profile- Law Department Diversity
  
  
• Read about ACC’s Diversity Efforts