A recent study by Corporate Counsel Women of Color (CCWC) discovered a
growing trend in women of color leaving law firms to work as corporate
counsels. Titled “The Perspectives of Women of Color Attorneys in
Corporate Legal Departments,” the study surveyed more than 1,300
African-American, Hispanic, Asian-American and Native American female
corporate attorneys.
By the time Antonio D. Martin left Kings County Hospital Center as executive director to lead the restructuring of the $6.7 billion New York City Health and Hospitals Corp., no one called the hospital by its old nickname, “Killer County.” “Even police officers now say they want to be taken to Kings County when they are shot,” Martin once told The Network Journal. .