diversity – Crip the Law

How Law School Career Services Offices Can Ensure Disabled Students Have the Tools for their Job Search

This blog discusses how career services offices, and the administrations that run them, can ensure that they are best serving their disabled students. Like our non-disabled peers, we are stressed about our employment prospects, both during and after law school. However, we face the added stress of worrying about whether

How Employers can Increase Opportunity Access and Opportunity for Law Students and Graduates

Overall, labor force participation for people with disabilities 16-64 years of age is only 32.7%, whereas for people without disabilities, it is 75.7%. Disability Employment Statistics, U.S. Dep’t of Labor, Off. of Disability Emp. Pol’y, https://www.dol.gov/agencies/odep/publications/statistics (last visited Oct. 10, 2020). That’s quite a disparity. Although there are a number

Prioritizing Accessibility: Law Firm On-Campus Interview Tips for Law Schools

According to the National Association for Law Placement, Inc.’s (NALP) 2019 report on diversity in U.S. law firms, only about half of one percent of all lawyers in large United States law firms identified as having a disability. While it is important for law firms to address their cultures, provide

NDLPA First-of-its-kind Data Analysis Reveals Only 5 Percent of Lawyers Identify as Disabled

According to new data analysis by the National Disabled Legal Professionals Association (NDLPA), approximately 4.4 percent of all workers in legal occupations identified as having a disability in 2024.[i] Among employed lawyers, judges, magistrates, and other judicial workers, a measly 5 percent identify as disabled, according to 2023 American Community Survey