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November 10, 2021

LCLD Leads on DE&I

• Allen Robertson, MP of Robinson Bradshaw, shares how the firm’s LCLD engagement has helped boost its pipeline amid a challenging market for law students and younger lateral associates.  Daily Report
• LCLD Board Member Ben Wilson, Chairman of Beveridge & Diamond, talks mentoring generations of diverse attorneys, his upbringing in the segregated South, and the work still needed to truly diversify the legal profession.  Bloomberg Law
• Gibson Dunn’s most recent partner class is its most diverse to date—a “dynamic” group that “represents the diverse bench of talent across our global platform,” says Chair and MP Barbara Becker.  Global Legal Post
• In this guest piece, Fisher Phillips discusses employee resource groups (ERGs), their history, and the many forms they can take.  JDSupra
• Greenberg Traurig, Fox Rothschild, and K&L Gates joined the recent string of Big Law firms offering billable hour credit for DE&I work.  Above the Law, The Recorder

On the Need for Equity in America

• Promoting pipelines to state courts.  California’s First Appellate District mentorship program is leading the way for other state courts to diversify their benches.  Bloomberg Law
• Law school diversity—or lack thereof.  With diverse students comprising just 30% of all incoming 1L students in 2020, law school diversity has increased only 5% in the last decade and has stagnated in recent years. Reuters, ABA

Aspects of Leadership

• Reenergize your in-house team.  Legal leaders should respond to signs of exhaustion by building lawyer engagement—not just shifting work around to others.  Corporate Counsel

Reimagining the Workplace

• ​Law firm culture after Covid.  Bernadette DeCelle of McCarter & English discusses the expansion of DE&I efforts at the firm and in the legal profession broadly, and their long-term effects on firm culture.  The National Law Review
• Rebuilding relationships.  Here are three ways to use the hybrid workplace to reestablish and strengthen relationships within your team and across your organization.  Harvard Business Review

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