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<blockquote data-quote="summer207" data-source="post: 72142" data-attributes="member: 9999">100% agree with your point about the 'stay gap'. I feel like lots of firms focus too much on recruitment rather than retention as well.Of course, I am just a second year law student so have never worked as a lawyer but I've had conversations with various black female associates who have left a firm for another. There have been different reasons - someone I spoke to left simply because the banking practice was way larger than she would have liked so she went to a US firm with a smaller team.But from a standpoint related to D&amp;I, a lawyer told me about a firm she left because she felt she could not be herself. This was related to hair and how some people at the firm would make it uncomfortably obvious when she had a new hairdo. Obviously, that's just one of many reasons but just thought I'd mention it. I was glad to see Linklaters implement the Halo Code and mention things like cornrows, twists, etc in it (which people tend to see as more unprofessional than black braids, wigs, etc). Type 4 hair is a lot to deal with and as long as someone is performing their work well, it is important that they are not in an environment where they are made to feel hyperaware because they've decided to come in with an afro.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="summer207, post: 72142, member: 9999"] 100% agree with your point about the 'stay gap'. I feel like lots of firms focus too much on recruitment rather than retention as well. Of course, I am just a second year law student so have never worked as a lawyer but I've had conversations with various black female associates who have left a firm for another. There have been different reasons - someone I spoke to left simply because the banking practice was way larger than she would have liked so she went to a US firm with a smaller team. But from a standpoint related to D&I, a lawyer told me about a firm she left because she felt she could not be herself. This was related to hair and how some people at the firm would make it uncomfortably obvious when she had a new hairdo. Obviously, that's just one of many reasons but just thought I'd mention it. I was glad to see Linklaters implement the Halo Code and mention things like cornrows, twists, etc in it (which people tend to see as more unprofessional than black braids, wigs, etc). Type 4 hair is a lot to deal with and as long as someone is performing their work well, it is important that they are not in an environment where they are made to feel hyperaware because they've decided to come in with an afro. [/QUOTE]

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