Muneer I. Ahmad, Interpreting Communities: Lawyering across Language Difference, 54 UCLA L. Rev. 999 (2007) (addressing the complexities of lawyering across language difference, focusing on poverty law practice and suggesting a more collaborative relationship among lawyers, clients, and interpreters).
Comm’n on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, Am. Bar Ass’n, Out and About: The LGBT Experience in the Legal Profession (2015) (giving an anthology of first-person narrative accounts of LGBT lawyers exploring the significant challenges and barriers that the LGBT community faces in their quest for full acceptance and participation in their chosen fields of legal expertise).
Alexis Anderson, et al., Challenges of Sameness: Pitfalls and Benefits to Assumed Connections in Lawyering, 18 Clinical L. Rev. 339 (2012) (addressing the concept of sameness – i.e., relating to clients with similar life issues in a clinical education setting).
Susan Bryant, Five Habits: Building Cross-Culture Competence in Lawyers, 8 Clinical L. Rev. 33 (2001) (suggesting a teaching method for legal clinic courses for training students to identify and address cross-culture issues).
Diversity in Practice: Race, Gender, and Class in Legal and Professional Careers (Spencer Headworth, et al. eds., Cambridge University Press 2016) (description from publisher: This book “analyzes the disconnect between expressed commitments to diversity and practical achievements, revealing the often obscure systemic causes that drive persistent professional inequalities. These original contributions build on existing literature and forge new paths in explaining enduring patterns of stratification in professional careers. These more realistic assessments provide opportunities to move beyond mere rhetoric to something approaching diversity in practice.”).
Multicultural Women Attorneys Network, Dear Sisters, Dear Daughters: Strategies for Success from Multicultural Women Attorneys (ABA Commission on Women in the Profession 2009) (giving a collection of letters from 44 experienced, highly accomplished women attorneys of color to the next generation outlining various roadmaps for success in the legal profession as a minority woman attorney, organized by practice setting).
Verna Myers, What if I Say the Wrong Thing?: 25 Habits for Culturally Effective People ( 2013) (giving practical tips for dealing with tricky situations and how to practice culturally effective habits).
Arin N. Reeves, N.Y City Bar Comm. on Minorities in the Profession, Colored by Race: Bias in the Evaluation of Candidates of Color by Law Firm Hiring Committees ( 2008), http://archive.mcca.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.viewpage&pageid=576 (listing best practices and a resource list for organization to use in their diversity initiatives).
Lauren Stiller Rikleen, Am. Bar Ass’n Presidential Task Force on Gender Equity and the Comm. on Women in the Profession, Closing the Gap: A Road Map for Achieving Gender Pay Equity in Law Firm Partner Compensation ( 2013), https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/women/closing_the_gap.authcheckdam.pdf (outlining a study of pay disparity in law firms, with historical background information and suggestions for improved methods of determining compensation).