ESG Enablement Through Technology, Law Department: The Diversity Dividends Collective, Law.com, April 20, 2023
The Diversity Dividends Collective is a first-of-its-kind collective amongst more than 40 legal departments to propel the inclusion, equity, and diversity of legal departments’ outside counsel teams—broadening the scope of underrepresented lawyers at law firms who have access to high-quality work, regularly interact with in-house counsel, and receive credit for originating client work.
Diversity Lab’s 2022 Inclusion Blueprint Insights, Diversity Lab, January 2023
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.
Another Shot at Big Law, Washington Lawyer, April 2023
In its efforts to help women lawyers reenter the profession, Diversity Lab’s OnRamp Fellowship addresses the intersectionality of gender, age, and ethnicity or race for women’s representation in the law.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.