Diversity Lab and our partners remain committed to advancing inclusivity across the legal industry to create a fair and equitable work environment for all. Knowledge Sharing is a resource hub that provides extensive information on our pilots and innovations as well as crucial matters of workplace equality and pertinent obstacles and challenges. We will routinely update this page and its subsequent pages. If you want to recommend content, please email us.
Following five months of working together in structured teams, 100+ legal department leaders, law firm partners, and DEI experts pitched their innovative solutions at Diversity Lab’s 2024 “Movements to Movements Hackathon” to a dozen influential judges and 200+ spectators.
More than 90 leading law firms in the US, UK, and Canada announced they are partnering with Diversity Lab to continue building a culture of inclusion for people with disabilities by implementing one or more of the actions listed on the recently launched Disability Inclusion Commitments.
Undeterred by the U.S. Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling and a raft of lawsuits targeting diversity initiatives at major corporations, leaders from 61 legal departments announced that their diversity commitments were strong enough to earn Mansfield Rule 2.0 certification this year.
Inclusion Blueprint: Reports
With more than 240 participating law firms this year, the legal profession now has the data needed to measure inclusion – in addition to representation – of underrepresented lawyers on a large scale for the first time. Diversity Lab encourages firms to use this data to prioritize their inclusion efforts.
Inclusion Blueprint: Video
Mark Wasserman talks about Eversheds Sutherland’s approach to succession planning, which goes beyond traditional retirement and focuses on all the people in the firm having access to opportunities at all points in their careers.
Inclusion Blueprint: Video
Inclusion Blueprint: Reports
Diversity Lab is providing law firms with the Inclusion Blueprint Strategic Planning Guide as a north star for assessing their firm’s current inclusion efforts.
Inclusion Blueprint: Reports
The legal profession has room to grow on inclusion tracking and measuring opportunities for lawyers with disabilities.
Inclusion Blueprint: Reports
Within each practice group category, more practice groups show year-over-year representation increases for equity partners than for non-equity partners across most demographic groups.
Inclusion Blueprint: Reports
Leveraging this Guide, practice group leaders can clearly identify what their practice group is already doing to ensure inclusivity and what their practice group can do to enhance its efforts to be more inclusive so that all lawyers have fair and equal access to career advancement.
Inclusion Blueprint: Reports
This Guide helps firm leaders identify what they are already doing to promote inclusivity and what else they can do to ensure that all lawyers have fair and equal access to career advancement and success.
Inclusion Blueprint: Reports
The 2019 Inclusion Blueprint reveals many interesting insights regarding the inclusion practices and diversity representation at both the practice group and firmwide levels at more than 70 law firms, which mostly include midsize to large Am Law 200 firms.
Inclusion Blueprint: Reports
This analysis examines data collected from the ChIPs Inclusion Blueprint Survey, conducted in August 2018, in partnership with Diversity Lab regarding gender diversity, inclusion practices, and intellectual property group inclusion practices.
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