Bloomberg Law
June 24, 2016, 11:16 PM UTC

An NFL Rooney Rule for Law Firms?

Casey Sullivan

Can law firms borrow ideas from professional sports leagues to improve gender equality?

Lawyers said at a conference on Friday that firms should adopt the equivalent of the National Football League’s Rooney rule, which requires teams to interview minority candidates for head coaching and other senior positions.

“Our proposal is quite simple: Adopt a Rooney rule for law firms,” said Nina Markey, a shareholder at Littler Mendelson who presented the idea in a team of nine members including lawyers and a law student.

The pitch came at the Women in Law Hackathon at Stanford Law School, where lawyers pitched ideas ...

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