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‘By no means Far From Dwelling’ chronicles lawyer’s journey from NYC initiatives to Microsoft government places of work
Bruce Jackson grew up shuttling between Brooklyn and Manhattan public housing initiatives in New York Metropolis. His journey led him to Hofstra College after which the Georgetown College Legislation Heart. He ditched a white-shoe agency job to launch a profession in leisure regulation and represented a number of the hottest hip-hop and rap artists within the Nineteen Nineties.
When Napster modified the music business, Jackson left for Seattle and Microsoft, the place he traded in his sharp fits for polos and khakis and sick beats for mosh pits—briefly.
As he tells the ABA Journal’s Lee Rawles on this episode of The Trendy Legislation Library podcast, one publicity to a Seattle grunge live performance had him packing his baggage to return to New York Metropolis.
However Jackson didn’t go away Microsoft—the place he now’s an affiliate basic counsel—and a serious focus of his profession on the firm has been to extend the tech big’s variety, fairness and inclusion efforts.
In By no means Far From Dwelling: My Journey From Brooklyn to Hip Hop, Microsoft, and the Legislation, Jackson displays on the individuals and applications that made his profession attainable and is unflinching concerning the risks that he confronted, the racism that he encountered, and the errors that he made in his private life as he pursued skilled success.
Jackson tells Rawles that earlier than demanding that others share their tales with us, it vital to inform our truths, as effectively.
Jackson shares how his childhood love of musical theater dovetailed together with his ability at accountancy and tax regulation whereas representing his purchasers within the hip-hop music scene. He discusses his prime ideas for bettering the range pipeline inside organizations and displays on discovering commonality with individuals from totally totally different backgrounds to his.
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Bruce Jackson. {Photograph} © Invision Photograph by Erskine Isaac.
Bruce Jackson is an affiliate basic counsel at Microsoft and managing director for strategic partnerships out of the workplace of the president at Microsoft. Born in Brooklyn, New York Metropolis, he studied regulation on the Georgetown College Legislation Heart and spent a decade working in leisure regulation with a number of the prime music expertise within the nation. Since then, he has obtained Microsoft’s variety award, participated in Microsoft’s regulation and company affairs’ variety efforts, helped launch Microsoft’s Elevate American Veterans Initiative, and labored to develop its numerous recruitment pipeline. By no means Far From Dwelling: My Journey From Brooklyn to Hip Hop, Microsoft, and the Legislation is his first e-book.
