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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is interesting.

I am a POC who started my career in Big Law.  At the time, there was only one POC  partner and he wielded significant power because he had been high up at DOJ and was a tremendous rainmaker.  While I was there, I was told a number of negative things about my ability and my future – one partner was especially nasty.  It was demoralizing.  Well POC partner told me that he learned early on that POC cannot make partner like others make partner.  There are too many minefields for most associates, but especially women and POC, to come up through the ranks.  We need to do some time in BigLaw, go elsewhere (government or in-house), forge relationships and come back with our books in tow.   Well, I did my time there and moved on.  I am now the Dep GC at a medium/large company and I control a $30 million outside counsel budget – nothing huge but enough to get some attention from Big Law partners. My internal clients are diverse and very smart – a legal team that is not diverse would not be an easy sell.

I do not “insist” on diversity with respect to my outside counsel but I do ask if I do not see any.  If I get a BS answer, it is likely that the firm will not get my business.  Having been where I have been and working with diverse clients, I KNOW that the definition of “qualified” is not a static definition.  I also know that there are a lot of qualified lawyers who do not fit the Big Law mold. 
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Good for you.  (Another POC attorney, in-house here).[/quote]

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