Raising The Bar: Diversifying Big Law

(Hardback)

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Huge demand: There is no other trade book about diversity at big law firmseveryone who has "skin in the game" from law students to law school deans to law firm partners will want to read this book
: Each of the people in the book is a part of a larger organization that has the capital and reach to promote the book, and the law firms involved will want to help promote and use the book in outreach efforts.
: These are key people in the field, and including them in the book means they will help promote.
: Anthony Thompson's Center on Race, Inequality and the Law is a national leader on these issues, and NYU law will help promote.
: We will work with national organizations including the American Constitution Society to host events at law schools across the country featuring local attorneys.
: We expect large orders from law firms who will use this book in their in-house diversity trainings

Author Bio

Debo P. Adegbile is a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr and co-chair of the firm's Anti-Discrimination Practice. He lives in New York.
Lisa Davis is a partner in the Entertainment Group at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz. She lives in New York.
Damaris Hernndez is the first Latina partner in Cravath, Swaine & Moore's litigation department. She lives in New York.
Ted Wells is a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and co-chair of the firm's litigation department. He lives in New York.
Anthony C. Thompson is a professor and faculty director of the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law at New York University School of Law. He is the author of Releasing Prisoners, Redeeming Communities and Dangerous Leaders, and a co-author, with Sherrilyn Ifill, Loretta Lynch, and Bryan Stevenson, of A Perilous Path. He lives in New York.