Caren Ulrich Stacy

Founder & Chief Experimentation Officer

Background

Caren Ulrich Stacy is a talent and behavioral science expert with more than 20 years of experience as the head of recruitment, development, and diversity for several of the world’s top law firms, including Arnold & Porter, Cooley, and Weil Gotshal. After co-founding Lawyer Metrics, a start-up company acquired by the Access Group that pioneered a “Moneyball” data-driven approach to lawyer recruitment and development, Caren created Diversity Lab to focus exclusively on closing the gender gap and increasing diversity and inclusion in the legal field. The Lab is an incubator for new and creative ideas that boost diversity and inclusion in law through the use of data, science, technology, and design-thinking.

Her work has been featured in Fast Company, The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, The National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, and on Fox News.

Honors & Industry Leadership

As a noted talent management and diversity expert, Caren was awarded the National Association of Legal Professionals (NALP) Mark of Distinction in 2009, the InnovAction Award by the College of Law Practice Management in 2014, and the Ms. JD “Strength in Numbers” Award in 2015. In addition, Caren was elected in 2010 as a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management – an honor awarded to fewer than 200 individuals in the country – and appointed to the Colorado Supreme Court Chief Justice’s Commission on Improving the Legal Profession in 2013.  In 2016, she was honored with Legal Momentum’s Women of Achievement Award and also selected from more than 500 entrepreneurs as one of the inaugural 10 Tory Burch Foundation Fellows.

Caren currently serves on the Legal Advisory Committee for the Silicon Valley Urban Debate League and as a Board Member for the US National Committee for UN Women.  Her past leadership roles include serving as a Judicial Performance Commissioner (evaluating judges in the 20^th District in Colorado), an adjunct professor for the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, and as a board member for DirectWomen.

Over the past two decades, she has contributed to over 250 presentations and publications on talent management and authored several highly regarded books, including Loyalty by Design: A Practical Guide for Developing an Effective Attorney Integration Program.

Select Published Books & Articles

Books

• Foreword Author, “The Articulate Attorney”  By Brian Johnson and Marsha Hunter (Crown King Books, June 2013)
• Contributing Author & Editor, “The Six-Minute Marathon: A Guide to Life as a Lawyer” By Judge Andy Hartman (NITA, June 2010)
• Contributing Author, “Partners in Transition: The Five Phases of an Effective Partner Integration Program” (NALP Foundation, January 2010)
• Contributing Author, “How Associate Evaluations Measure Up: Identifying Effective Evaluations Criteria” (NALP Foundation, June 2006)
• Co-author, “Loyalty By Design: A Practical Guide For Developing an Effective Associate Integration Program” (NALP Foundation, July 2005)
• Contributing Author, “Best Practices in Attorney Professional Development – Conducting an Effective Needs Assessment” (American Bar Association, October 2004)

Articles

• Law.com, “The Game Changing Potential of Combining Tech, Talent & Diversity” (June 2018)
• The American Lawyer, “Four Unexpected Career Hacks from Big Law’s Top Performers” (May 2017)
• NALP Bulletin, “Keeping the Keepers: Focusing on Lateral Associate Hires” (January 2014)
• Law Practice Management, American Bar Association, “Solving the Multimillion-Dollar C Player Problem” (May 2013)
• NALP Bulletin, “Behavioral Interviewing 2.0: Using Structured Panel Interviews to Identify High Performers and Eliminate Bias in Lawyer Interviewing” (February 2012)
• Bloomberg Law, “Everything You Think You Know About Lawyer Recruiting Is Wrong: The New Science of Evidence-Based Hiring Practices” (November 2011)
• The American Lawyer and Law.com, “Moneyball for Law Firms” (October 2011)
• West LegalEdcenter Newsletter, “Emerging Trends in Lawyer Development & Advancement” (December 2009)
• NALP Bulletin, “Moving From Lockstep to a Merit-Based Competency System” (September 2009)