This is Adam Allington. I'm a senior podcast producer at Bloomberg Law, and I'm Lisa Helen, executive editor for Strategic Initiatives, and we're here to announce a new season of Uncommon Law, a narrative podcast series from Bloomberg Law. As last summer's protests against police violence and systemic racism continue to reverberate, we'll focus our attention and how those events are impacting
the world of large corporate law firms. We're calling this first series Black Lawyers Speak, stories of the past, hopes for the future. And while there's been renewed attention on diversity and inclusion in these last six months, Big Laws track record in this area remains very much a work in progress. Many of our graduates go into spaces in which they are one of the only African American lawyers.
They may be the only African American lawyer. The thing that always gets me about racism is how much money white people are willing to give up to prop it up. You'll hear a range of voices from across the legal community, including associates and partners, law school deans as well as general counsel. We will very regularly look at those metrics, because there may be firms that do well for a year or two but then fall behind. We'll also hear
from some pathbreaking African American attorneys in corporate law. How have they dealt with issues of inclusion and what changes are they hoping to see in the profession. When I first started teaching at nineteen eighty six, you used to have to spend the time as the first half an hour of subdiversity and discussion, convinsing people that diversity was an important goal. You don't have to do that anymore. But the problem is they haven't made a huge amount
of progress. It's not fair, But what can be better than being on the front lines of helping to make this country better for all of us? If not us, who? If not now? When? If you'd like to learn more about how the business of law intersects with the issues of social justice and a culture, then this is the podcast for you. Just search for Uncommon Law wherever you get your podcasts.