Law schools, businesses, and the courts should consider mandating anti-bias training and look for race-neutral strategies for school acceptance and hiring, a New York State Bar Association report said.
The report released Wednesday also called for increased financial aid for law school and pipeline programs to ensure diversity within the legal ranks.
The report, written by the association’s Task Force on Advancing Diversity, comes in the wake of the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling in June that effectively barred universities from using race as a factor in admissions. The task force examined how the ruling will affect the legal ...