What does diversity look like here? It depends how you define “here” – is it a particular firm or partnership? Is it our local legal market? All attorneys in the state of Idaho? Attorneys in the West? Or even on a national level? For me, a female real estate, construction, and finance transactional attorney in Boise, Idaho, diversity is viewed through each of those lenses. I have personally witnessed the progress we have made over the past 13 years, since starting out as a junior associate with no context for diversity except growing up in Eastern Idaho –which is not exactly a place teeming with diversity – to today, where the conversation about diversity is front and center, as it should be....
Originally published in The Advocate - June/July 2019 Issue.
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