{"id":155430,"date":"2026-06-25T15:06:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/06\/25\/biglaws-diversity-efforts-are-slowing-but-arent-dead-yet\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T15:06:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:06:46","slug":"biglaws-diversity-efforts-are-slowing-but-arent-dead-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/06\/25\/biglaws-diversity-efforts-are-slowing-but-arent-dead-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Biglaw\u2019s Diversity Efforts Are Slowing, But Aren\u2019t Dead Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The numbers [are] still moving forward, [even though] it\u2019s one of the most challenging environments for diversity initiatives in decades. But increasing or holding steady riding on the prior years of increases\u2014it suggests firms are continuing to view talent development and broadening opportunities for inclusivity as core business priorities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span>\u2014 Scott Curran, social impact strategy general &amp; strategic counsel at Beyond Advisers, commenting on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/americanlawyer\/2026\/06\/24\/the-arrow-stays-upjust-barelyon-minority-representation-in-big-law\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">data collected by Law.com<\/a> revealing that, at Am Law 200 firms, attorneys from racial and ethnic minority groups were 23.4% of all attorneys, up ever so slightly \u2014 0.2% \u2014 over the previous year. It is the smallest rate of growth over the last 10 years.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/06\/biglaws-diversity-efforts-are-slowing-but-arent-dead-yet\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Biglaw\u2019s Diversity Efforts Are Slowing, But Aren\u2019t Dead Yet<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The numbers [are] still moving forward, [even though] it\u2019s one of the most challenging environments for diversity initiatives in decades. But increasing or holding steady riding on the prior years of increases\u2014it suggests firms are continuing to view talent development and broadening opportunities for inclusivity as core business priorities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span>\u2014 Scott Curran, social impact strategy general &amp; strategic counsel at Beyond Advisers, commenting on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/americanlawyer\/2026\/06\/24\/the-arrow-stays-upjust-barelyon-minority-representation-in-big-law\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">data collected by Law.com<\/a> revealing that, at Am Law 200 firms, attorneys from racial and ethnic minority groups were 23.4% of all attorneys, up ever so slightly \u2014 0.2% \u2014 over the previous year. It is the smallest rate of growth over the last 10 years.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/06\/biglaws-diversity-efforts-are-slowing-but-arent-dead-yet\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Biglaw\u2019s Diversity Efforts Are Slowing, But Aren\u2019t Dead Yet<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The numbers [are] still moving forward, [even though] it\u2019s one of the most challenging environments for diversity initiatives in decades. But increasing or holding steady riding on the prior years of increases\u2014it suggests firms are continuing to view talent development and broadening opportunities for inclusivity as core business priorities. \u2014 Scott Curran, social impact strategy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}