Raising the Bar

Debo P. Adegbile, Lisa Davis, Damaris Hernandez & Ted Wells, Raising the Bar: Diversifying Big Law (The New Press, 2019).

In Raising the Bar, four partners of color from leading law firms engage in a no-holds-barred conversation about what it takes to make it in big law, using their own journeys to the top to discuss how law firms can do a better job of attracting and holding on to a more diverse set of young attorneys. They offer advice to the attorneys themselves on how to succeed in a culture that has long excluded them, including finding mentors among those who don't look like them, building a portable tool kit of skills, establishing key connections outside the firm, and staying "true to you," even as young associates of color navigate the foreign terrain of insular firm culture.

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