Corporate Counsel Women of Color held its 9th Annual Career Strategies Conference in Washington, D.C. last week. Laurie Robinson Haden, the organization’s founder, and a host of marquee names in the legal community — real … Read More
Last weekend, the University of Maryland School of Law held their 3rd Annual Black Alumni Reunion & Symposium. With the theme, “The Black Law Student Association: 45 Years of Service, Support & Friendship,” the celebration … Read More
Georgetown Law recently honored current and past members of BLSA for their accomplishments. Established in 2012, the Celebration of Excellence Reception pays homage to students and alumni who have demonstrated excellence through their leadership in … Read More
Black Women Lawyers of Northern California (BWLNC) held their fabulous holiday party and swearing in recently. BWLNC was founded in 1979 by now Judge Judy Johnson of the Contra Costa County Superior Court. The group’s … Read More
Simon P. Gourdine, once the highest-ranking black executive in the NBA died Thursday in Englewood, N.J. He was 72. Born July 30, 1940 in Jersey City, he graduated from City College in 1962 and Fordham … Read More
On Saturday The Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS) hosted it’s annual PATH Conference a program geared towards exposing law students to service as a public defender as a viable career option. … Read More
Howard University’s School of Law has a new leader at least on an interim basis. Longtime law professor Okianer Christian Dark has assumed the deanship of the oldest historically black law school in the nation. Read More
In Fraternity, Diane Brady follows five of the men through their college years one of them becomes a Supreme Court Justice, and another one of the nation’s top trial lawyers. Read More
Leondra Kruger has made a name for herself, and holds a distinct role as an African-American litigator who feels right at home representing the United States in the highest court in the land. Read More