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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Boden" data-source="post: 74217" data-attributes="member: 487">Completely agree with you that things have to change and I think they slowly are certainly judging by recent conversations I have had with black and other lawyers from minority ethnic backgrounds (I think the events of the last year have been a big wake up call for a lot of firms and about time too!).Just to say that just because someone isn't black or a person of colour doesn't mean that they can't try and understand the experiences of minorities and the difficulties they go through - I know from personal experience all the events of the last year and the discussions that have taken place have been incredibly eye-opening for me as a white male and I can only hope that these will have a significant impact going forwards with people in my position now much more confident to call out micro-aggressions etc when they see them in the workplace. Hopefully, firms will be implementing measures to make that process much easier than it was perhaps previously.I think the most important thing for law firms would be to prevent the attrition during associate years that causes so many diverse candidates from either leaving the firm or the profession altogether but how firms do that I'm not sure on and would be curious how you guys think that can be prevented?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Boden, post: 74217, member: 487"] Completely agree with you that things have to change and I think they slowly are certainly judging by recent conversations I have had with black and other lawyers from minority ethnic backgrounds (I think the events of the last year have been a big wake up call for a lot of firms and about time too!). Just to say that just because someone isn't black or a person of colour doesn't mean that they can't try and understand the experiences of minorities and the difficulties they go through - I know from personal experience all the events of the last year and the discussions that have taken place have been incredibly eye-opening for me as a white male and I can only hope that these will have a significant impact going forwards with people in my position now much more confident to call out micro-aggressions etc when they see them in the workplace. Hopefully, firms will be implementing measures to make that process much easier than it was perhaps previously. I think the most important thing for law firms would be to prevent the attrition during associate years that causes so many diverse candidates from either leaving the firm or the profession altogether but how firms do that I'm not sure on and would be curious how you guys think that can be prevented? [/QUOTE]

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