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.
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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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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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Despite some progress, the legal profession continues to struggle with diversity and inclusion.
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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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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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Built-in structural issues can cause relatively diversified annual junior intakes to experience alarming dropout rates further down the line.
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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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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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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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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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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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