New York Lawyers Need To Learn About Diversity, Bars Say (Law360)
Law360, July 25, 2016
New York Lawyers Need To Learn About Diversity, Bars Say
“More than a dozen New York bar associations in a letter on Friday pushed authorities in the state to require lawyers to earn separate continuing education credits that focus exclusively on diversity and inclusion in the legal profession and the elimination of bias. In the letter to New York Court of Appeals Chief Judge Janet DiFiore and the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board, the bar associations urged the authorities to adopt a recently passed American Bar Association resolution — ABA Resolution 107— that would require the diversityoriented continuing education credits. The resolution has already been adopted in California and Minnesota. ‘There is no more important time to do this,’ John S. Kiernan, president of the New York City Bar Association, said in a statement on Friday. ‘The ABA has led the way, California and Minnesota have done it, and New York should be next, without delay.'”
