Best Practices for Building and Supporting the Pipeline
An annual forum for educators and employers to identify challenges to pipeline diversity and suggest strategies and tactics to support diverse students who seek to pursue a legal career.
Annual Best Practices for Building and Supporting the Pipeline Forum
Each year, the Committee on Diversity Pipeline Initiatives hosts a Best Practices for Building and Supporting the Pipeline forum. This forum brings together regional pipeline organizations, legal educators and legal employers to discuss the importance of promoting diversity in the legal profession by encouraging programming and involvement for students considering a legal career. Forum participants identify the challenges to pipeline diversity and develop strategies and best practices to overcome these challenges through effective collaboration with organizations that promote similar missions. Following each forum, the Committee issues a set of best practices to assist with the development of diversity programs.
For more information about this program, please contact Gabrielle Brown at (212) 382-6713 or gbrown@nycbar.org
Post-Conference Reports
2012 Post-Conference Report: Expanding the Pipeline to the Legal Profession for Diverse College Students & Recent Graduates [download]
2011 Post-Conference Report: Best Practices for Educators and Employers on Building and Supporting the Pipeline [download]
Past Best Practices Programs
Empowering Tomorrow's Leaders: Best Practices for Supporting Diverse Students During Law School and Into Employment
March 15, 2013, 4:30pm
An annual forum presented by the City Bar Committee on Diversity Pipeline Initiatives for educators, employers, and regional pipeline organizations, to discuss ways to enhance opportunities for diverse law students and recent law graduates as they enter the profession.
Sponsored by: Committee on Diversity Pipeline Initiatives, Paula T. Edgar, Chair
Co-sponsored by: Committee on Minorities in the Profession, Jeanine Conley, Chair; Committee on Law Student Perspectives, Susan D. Bainnson, Chair; Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Lawyers, Steven P. Seltzer, Chair; Practicing Attorneys for Law Students, Inc. (PALS)
Expanding the Pipeline to the Legal Profession for Diverse College Students & Recent Graduates
March 29, 2012, 4:30pm
A follow-up program to last year's successful Best Practices Program, the City Bar Committees on Diversity Pipeline Initiatives and Minorities in the Profession will host a forum for educators, employers, with regional pipeline organizations, to discuss ways to enhance opportunities for diverse college students and recent graduates to pursue legal careers.
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Best Practices for Educators and Employers on Building and Supporting the Pipeline
March 3, 2011
A forum for educators and employers, with regional pipeline organizations, to discuss the importance of promoting diversity in the legal profession by encouraging youth participation and support at an early stage. Participants will identify the challenges to pipeline diversity and develop strategies to overcome these challenges through effective collaboration with organizations that promote similar missions. The program will include plenary sessions to discuss educational initiatives and the current work of local pipeline groups. Participants will then partake in breakout group discussions and the program will culminate with a networking reception.
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