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Black Lawyers
Top of Mind with Julie Rose
Texas Power, Black Lawyers, Mine
Episode: Texas Power, Black Lawyers, Mine
- Feb 25, 2021 9:00 pm
- 16:34 mins
America’s prestigious law firms are very white, but big law firms and Fortune 500 companies with powerful in-house law departments say they’re committed to diversity. What’s it going to take? A group of black attorneys called 1844 have managed to crack into those elite ranks, and they have some suggestions. Conway Ekpo is co-founder of 1844 and is in-house counsel at a major Wall Street bank.