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Marketing The Law Firm
Racial Equity Audits Create Accountability for DEI Programs
Alexandre Rene, Michael R. Littenberg, Jessica L. Soto and Caitlin Handron
As intolerance for inequities in policing and the workplace grew, corporations across the nation pledged their commitment to transform their hiring, promotion, and retention practices to foster inclusion for personnel at all levels. Whether organizations have made good on these commitments is an open question. Racial Equity Audits have emerged as a promising method for answering that question and addressing identified shortcomings.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Diversity & Technology: Training Your AI to Be More Inclusive
Aaron Lee
AI is maturing and creating countless new opportunities to help people live better lives at home and work. As the technology evolves, it is essential that it does so inclusively, equally recognizing and serving all individuals who make up the world’s population.
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Marketing The Law Firm
DEI As a Competitive Advantage
Dr. Sharon Meit Abrahams and Melinda Hall Wieder
An example of how understanding another person’s life experience impacts how a practicing attorney can be a more effective advocate for their client.
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Marketing The Law Firm
In Push for Diversity, Law Firms Risk Tokenism
Patrick Smith
Law firms have dedicated a great deal of focus to increasing diversity, but many are falling short on enacting meaningful changes to improve equity and inclusion. That undermines retention efforts, and causes law firms to continue falling short of moving the needle.
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Marketing The Law Firm
Equity, Inclusion, and Individual Engagement Principle (EIIEP)
Frank L. Douglas
Employee engagement is becoming vital to successful businesses, however, that hasn’t translated to significantly wider adoption of meaningful diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices in workspaces.
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Marketing The Law Firm
How Gamification Leads to Meaningful Workplace DEI Changes
Heidi Turner
Because gamification is frequently misunderstood, people often diminish it in conversations about diversity, equity and inclusion. An examination of gamification as a whole, however, shows how it lends itself to addressing serious issues.
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Commercial Leasing Law & Strategy
ESG Practices, Spurred By Pandemic, Will Play Role In Future of Real Estate Investment
Kelsi Maree Borland
Over the last decade, commercial real estate players have increasingly considered the environment and sustainability when underwriting investments and operating properties, but the pandemic has catalyzed rapid growth in ESG adoption.
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Marketing The Law Firm
Business Development: How Impactful D&I Programs Can Drive Business Development and Profits
Sheila Murphy
Impactful Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) programs can help law firms and organizations realize stronger relationships with clients, create better outcomes and drive revenue.
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Marketing The Law Firm
Spring Forward: Three Insights from Women Who Win in Business Development
Holly Barocio
While the mastery of business development fundamentals applies to all lawyers, women business developers possess unique characteristics and face unique challenges in comparison to their male counterparts.
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Marketing The Law Firm
Gender Equity Is Part of DRI’s DNA
Emily G. Coughlin
DRI is leading the way for women to take hold of leadership positions, setting the standard for other industry organizations to follow suit.
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Business Crimes Bulletin
Corporate ESG Integration Not Optional
Alexandra Poe and Bryan Sillaman
Corporate ESG (environmental, social and governance) integration is becoming less optional every day, driven by increasing regulation, investor demand and the recent embrace of stakeholder capitalism.
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Accounting And Financial Planning For Law Firms
10 Ways to Prepare for 2021’s Collision of Business and Society
Zach Olsen and Ken Kerrigan
As we enter 2021, we should expect the needs of business and society to continue colliding. But if law firms prepare for those collisions, they can drive better outcomes.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech: Embracing Diversity in the E-Discovery New Normal
Dionysia Johnson-Massie and Kimberly J. Duplechain
The COVID-19 pandemic creates opportunities for the ediscovery industry, like the law and technology industries, to expand its engagement and retention of diverse talent. Here are some actions that can be taken today.
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Entertainment Law & Finance
Soccer Federation Litigators Discuss Recent Ruling in Equal Pay Case
Jenna Greene
Latham & Watkins partners Michele Johnson and Jamie Wine turned the tide for the U.S. Soccer Federation in a high-profile — and highly sensitive — wage discrimination lawsuit by the U.S. Senior Women’s National Team. In this Q&A, Johnson and Wine discuss their perspective on the case
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Accounting And Financial Planning For Law Firms
Caste System Persists Among Attorneys and Business Professionals
Dylan Jackson
While the last decade has brought a revolution of global law firms employing thousands of attorneys and an army of professional staff — pricing executives, marketers and legal operation specialists, among many others — many professional law firm staff tell stories of a two-tiered system that minimizes their role and contributions. Observers said the caste system is a long-standing cultural mindset that stems from an age when firms were smaller and more informal, without hundreds of employees.
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Accounting And Financial Planning For Law Firms
Law Firm Diversity Roundtable
Steve Salkin
Creating an Environment Attractive to Diverse Lawyers Where They Can Rise to the Leadership Level
A roundtable discussion with four prominent leaders in law and recruiting who weigh in what firms are doing — and can do — to create environments that are attractive to diverse lawyers and enable them to rise to the leadership level.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Q&A with Women Leaders in Cybersecurity and Privacy
Adam Schlagman
In 2017, Atlanta attorney Bess Hinson founded the Atlanta Women in Cybersecurity Roundtable, an invitation-only initiative to provide community and resources to advance women in cybersecurity in Atlanta. Here, we speak with some of those women leaders about their biggest security and privacy challenges and why women are pursing legal and other roles in the cybersecurity and privacy field.
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Marketing The Law Firm
Women’s Initiatives: Women’s Initiatives Create Opportunity and Benefits in Law Firms
Vivian Hood
One of the most significant means of support law firms can have for women lawyers is adopting women’s initiatives that provide a means for women lawyers to support one another within a firm and deliver a commitment to the advancement and understanding of unique issues that women face at their firms.
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Entertainment Law & Finance
Warner Media Implements New Inclusion Policy
Kristen Rasmussen
It seems fitting that a new movie that highlights racism and inequity in the American prison system is the first Hollywood production to apply a policy aimed at increasing diversity and inclusion both in front of and behind the camera.
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Accounting And Financial Planning For Law Firms
Prior Salary Can’t Justify Gender Wage Gap
Erin Mulvaney
“To Hold Otherwise — to Allow Employers to Capitalize on the Persistence of the Wage Gap and Perpetuate That Gap Ad Infinitum — Would Be Contrary to the Text and History of the Equal Pay Act,” Judge Stephen Reinhardt Wrote for the Majority
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled on April 9 that salary history cannot be used to justify a wage gap between men and women, in a case that employee advocates said highlights a key issue that has institutionalized gender compensation inequities.
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Marketing The Law Firm
Diversity As a Differentiator in the Legal Profession
John J. Buchanan
One aspect of law firms that is becoming increasingly of interest to clients — and an area that might offer opportunities for differentiation — is law firm commitment to increasing and sustaining diversity.
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