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DEI Resources

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.

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Pitch Competition Delivers Innovative Ways to Defend and Fortify DEI in the Legal Profession

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.

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90+ Law Firms Take Action to Increase Disability Inclusion

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.

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Mansfield Certification Triples in 3 Years

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.

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Mansfield: Articles

The Science Behind The Mansfield Rule’s Success In Law, LAW360, September 6, 2023

An interview with Caren Ulrich Stacy, founder and CEO of Diversity Lab, and Alyssa Jarvis, senior Mansfield manager, explores the behavioral approach to driving change in the legal industry.

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What It’s Like for Midsize Firms To Get Mansfield-Certified, According to the Firms Who Just Did, law.com, June 01, 2023

About 70 midsize firms qualified for Diversity Lab’s midsize Mansfield Certification in the program’s second iteration. Leaders at recently qualified firms said the program pushed them to formalize talent management solutions.

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Underrepresented to Empowered: Creating a More Inclusive Legal Profession, Courtroom Insight Blog, May 3, 2023

Despite some progress, the legal profession continues to struggle with diversity and inclusion.

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Innovations in Diversity and Inclusion, Law Firm: Nixon Peabody, law.com, May 11, 2023

In collaboration with Diversity Lab, Nixon Peabody designed the “Mansfield Rule for Workflow” (MRW), a “bias interrupter” to help the firm’s leaders create a more inclusive culture related to staffing teams and furthering associates’ career development.

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How to track and empower diversity and inclusion initiatives in the legal profession, ABA Journal, January 2023

An interview with Caren Ulrich Stacy, the founder and CEO of the Diversity Lab, about how behavioral science and design thinking can cultivate diversity and inclusion in legal organizations.

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Despite the Effort, Structural Blockers, Not Ennui, Stall Law Firm Diversity Efforts, June 06, 2023

Built-in structural issues can cause relatively diversified annual junior intakes to experience alarming dropout rates further down the line.

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Data Shows Mansfield Firms Are Adding Diverse Leaders Much Faster, The American Lawyer, May 2023

Researchers from two universities say data science backs the need for DEIA innovation and measurement, leveraging Mansfield as a prime example. Finding that Mansfield early-adopter firms roughly double the rate at which gender and racial representation is improving in their firm’s equity partnerships and executive committees.

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Diversifying Leadership: How the Mansfield Rule Is Driving Change, Bloomberg Law, June 2022

Former Reed Smith DEI leader John Iino, Penn Law’s Jim Sandman, and Diversity Lab CEO Caren Ulrich Stacy share data on Mansfield’s promising progress in delivering positive culture and structural changes in law firm leadership.

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To Reach DEI Goals, Structural Challenges Require Structural Solutions

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Mansfield Certification Triples in 3 Years, Signaling That Legal Departments Are Still Keen on Diversity

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63 In-House Legal Teams Win Mansfield Diversity Certification

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The Science Behind The Mansfield Rule’s Success in Law

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Tara Plimpton Named Woman of Impact

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A Push for More Progress: Increased Diversity in the Legal Profession

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Mansfield: Reports

Mansfield Outcomes Show Significant Growth in Diversifying Leadership

Summary Systemic Problem: Industry data shows that leadership in law firms and legal departments does not reflect the diversity of the workforce or society.  Since lawyers often have an immense societal footprint – often branching out from leadership in private practice and companies to take on roles where their decisions reverberate massively across the public and […]

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Leaders at Mansfield Law Firms Discuss Benefits of Mansfield Participation

US & Canada Law Firms (October 2022) “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) are core values of Beveridge & Diamond. We are dedicated to continuing our leadership in DE&I and fostering an inclusive workplace for lawyers and staff alike. Our participation in the Mansfield Rule initiative has facilitated our development of new programs and processes, and […]

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Mansfield: Reports

Leaders at Mansfield Law Firms Discuss Benefits of Mansfield Participation

US & Canada Law Firms (October 2022) “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) are core values of Beveridge & Diamond. We are dedicated to continuing our leadership in DE&I and fostering an inclusive workplace for lawyers and staff alike. Our participation in the Mansfield Rule initiative has facilitated our development of new programs and processes, and […]

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Legal 500 Podcast: Diversity Lab and A&O Shearman on Mansfield Certification – Magic bullets and measurable change

Diversity Lab’s Alyssa Jarvis and A&O Shearman’s Jo Dooley explore how Mansfield drives transparency in leadership opportunities for all lawyers across participating US and UK law firms, helps translate inclusive values into measurable action, and fosters accountability in supporting truly inclusive workplace cultures within law firms. Tune in for the Podcast Episode.   

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