Tani G CantilSakauye Survey of surveys The trend is flattening out Overall percent increases from 1970s to present are misleadingly large High initial increases mask low recent gains The recent trend is flat across all categories ID: 1033541
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1. Diversity summit 2020
2. Chief Justice of CaliforniaTani G. Cantil-Sakauye
3. Survey of surveys
4. The trend is flattening out.Overall percent increases from 1970s to present are misleadingly large.High initial increases mask low recent gains.The recent trend is flat across all categories.The pipeline leaks at every stage.The largest loss is in post-bar employment.takeaways
5. Male 67%Female 33%White 69%Hispanic 10% Asian 6.5%Black 6.6%57%42%68%7% 13%4%JudiciaryLawyersPopulation50% 50%41%35%15%6%californiaSources: California Judicial Council and California State Bar
6. Because the recent trend shows only trivial gains.Overall increases from near-zero to the present are misleading.
7. ABA Demographics 2019From 1950 to 1970, only 3% of all lawyers were women. The percentage has edged up gradually since then – 8% in 1980, 20% in 1991, 27% in 2000, 36% today. But the ten-year period shows a lower than historical gain rate (5%).
8. Aba Total Minority J.D. Enrollment 1987–2011Note the timeline is reversed.Here it is in chronological order, showing an increase over time.
9. Eeoc diversity in law firms 2003Since 1975, the representation of women, African Americans, Hispanics and Asian Americans as professionals in larger legal service firms has increased substantially.Women increased from 14.4 percent in 1975 to 40.3 percent in 2002.African Americans from 2.3 percent to 4.4 percent (up 2% in 25 years).Hispanics from 0.7 percent to 2.9 percent (up 2% in 25 years).Asians from 0.5 percent to 5.3 percent (up 5% in 25 years).
10. Eeoc diversity in law firms 2003In 1982 the percent of women reported as professionals in Legal Services is nearly identical to the percent of women receiving law degrees in that year. However, by 2002 the employment of women as professionals in these larger law firms is 8% below degrees conferred. Employment of women lawyers reported in the Current Population Survey falls behind both the employment of women professionals in legal services and law degrees obtained by women.
11. Eeoc diversity in law firms 2003Law degrees earned by African Americans appear to consistently exceed the employment of African Americans as professionals in legal services in large private law firms and as lawyers in the general work force.
12. Eeoc diversity in law firms 2003In 1982 Hispanics were earning law degrees at a rate (2.3 percent) exceeding their representation as professionals in legal services and as attorneys in the general work force. By the end of the period this disparity continues.
13. Eeoc diversity in law firms 2003Over the past twenty years the rate of change for the percent of Asians reported as professional by legal service firms is 341%. The increase in law degrees earned by Asians is even higher at 400%.
14. NALP employment patterns 2004
15. For the first time in years, the population of minority lawyers at big law firms is shrinking. That's the key finding to emerge from the latest version of our annual Diversity Scorecard, which counts attorneys of color in the U.S. offices of approximately 200 big firms.American lawyer 2010
16. Women are half the population but only about a third of the profession and about a fifth of law firm partners, general counsels of Fortune 500 corporations, and law school deans. Only 17% of equity partners are women, and only seven of the nation’s 100 largest firms have a woman as chairman or managing partner. Women are less likely to make partner even controlling for other factors, including law school grades and time spent out of the workforce or on part-time schedules. Studies find that men are two to five times more likely to make partner than women.Blacks, Latinos, Asian Americans and Native Americans are about a third of the population and a fifth of law school graduates, but they make up fewer than 7% of law firm partners and 9% of general counsels of large corporations. In major law firms, only 3% of associates and less than 2% of partners are African Americans.Washington post 2015
17. The percentage of partners who are women or minorities has increased at least some every year, but the partnership ranks remain overwhelmingly white and male.The percentage of associates who are minority has increased at least some every year, and has increased from less than 8% to over 23%. However, this figure continues to lag behind minority enrollment and graduation from law school.The percentage of associates who are women has grown at times, stalled at other times, and decreased at others. The figure peaked in 2009 and has decreased in five of the eight years since, and in 2017 remains slightly below its 2009 level.Growth in the share of African-American/Blacks among associates has been virtually non existent, and peaked in 2008. This was followed by a seven-year decline.Nalp 1993 to 2017
18. Nalp 1993 to 2017
19. ASSOCIATES:Despite small increases in the past three years, representation of Black/African-American associates remains just below its 2009 level of 4.66% and is now 4.48%. The overall percentage of women associates has decreased almost as often as not since 2009.PARTNERS:Women and minorities continued to make small gains in their representation among law firm partners in 2018. An increase of about seven-tenths of a percentage point in representation of minorities among partners is noted as the largest over the entire span of NALP’s compilation of these figures (26 years).Minority women continue to be the most dramatically underrepresented group at the partnership level.Representation of Black/African-Americans among partners has barely increased since 2009.Nalp firm diversity 2018
20. ABA Demographics 2019The percentage of lawyers who are racial or ethnic minorities grew slowly over the past decade: 3% in the past 10 years, from 12% of all lawyers in 2009 to 15% of all lawyers in 2019.White men and women are still overrepresented in the legal profession compared with their presence in the overall U.S. population. In 2019, 85% of all lawyers are white, a decline from 88% a decade ago. By comparison, 76.6% of all U.S. residents are white in 2019.Nearly all minorities are underrepresented in the legal profession compared with their presence in the U.S. population. For example, 5% of all lawyers are African American – the same percentage as 10 years earlier – but the U.S. population is 13.4% African American.Similarly, 5% of all lawyers are Hispanic – the same as a decade earlier – although the U.S. population is 18.1% Hispanic. And 2% of all lawyers are Asian – no change from 10 years earlier – while the U.S. population is 5.8% Asian.
21. ABA Demographics 2019Source: ABASource: National Science Foundation
22. Ca bar 2019Minorities drop out and fail at higher rates than whites. . .
23. Ca bar 2019Minorities drop out and fail at higher rates than whites. . .. . . and they gain and keep employment at lower rates relative to population share and compared with whites.