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Diversity Lab leverages data and behavioral science to build talent systems that cultivate inclusive workplaces in the legal profession. We level the playing field — through structure, accountability, and transparency — so everyone can thrive and advance into leadership. Our north star is fairness.
Since 2014, Diversity Lab has built, piloted, and measured the impact of experiments and innovations that cultivate inclusive and diverse cultures in law and beyond. Ideas are created through hackathons and piloted in collaboration with 350+ top law firms and 100+ corporations. We measure the results and share the lessons learned.
And our methods are working — the data proves it.
We partner with top law firms committed to leveling the playing field by testing innovative, inclusive talent practices and measuring the results.
We collaborate with corporations to cultivate inclusive legal departments and partner with their law firms to provide equal access to opportunities.
In collaboration with leading law firms and legal departments, we develop and test pilots that strive to level the playing field in the legal profession and beyond. We leverage data and behavioral science to test ideas, measure results, iterate, and share lessons learned. We make a difference, and we have the data to prove it.
We turn concepts into solutions through experiential pilots that we continually measure and evolve. In collaboration with 450+ clients, we are always working to optimize our impact.
A “returnship” that matches experienced lawyers to prestigious roles after an extended hiatus from the workforce.
A structured certification process designed to ensure all talent has a fair and equal opportunity to advance into leadership.
Four trailblazing law firms invest in experimental talent initiatives to transform the profession.
A one-of-a-kind diagnostic, built for law firm leaders, to measure inclusion and equal access.
For legal departments to assess outside counsel on inclusion practices and metrics that matter most.
An accessible directory to quickly find legal expertise from partners at Mansfield firms.
Ten actions law firms can take to boost inclusivity and equal access for people with disabilities.
Employers are being confronted with numerous legal and workplace complexities in managing inclusion, equity and diversity (IE&D) programs, from the repercussions of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions to roll back affirmative action college admissions policies to new anti-IE&D state laws to mounting calls to take a stance on social issues.
More than 90 leading law firms in the US, UK, and Canada announced today 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.
It’s not an easy time to be a diversity, equity and inclusion professional, in the legal world or elsewhere, with the topic garnering significant legal, political and social pushback over the past year. But the involvement of more than 100 lawyers and in-house counsel in a DEI Hackathon organized by Diversity Lab reveals that the subject is far from dead in Big Law.
Contact us if you are a law firm or legal department leader who is willing to invest in systemic change to build a more inclusive workplace.
