Wal-Mart Demands Diversity in Law Firms Outside counsel must comply or lose its business, says GC at nation's biggest retailer Law firms that pack their lower ranks with minorities and women while leaving white men in charge are about to find Wal-Mart a tough customer. The nation's biggest retailer wants to see diversity at the top. The company's general counsel has told its top 100 law firms that at least one person of color and one woman must be among the top five relationship attorneys that handle its business. Wal-Mart GC Thomas Mars made the announcement last week at an...
