Thank you, Dan Roe, at The American Lawyer, for highlighting Diversity Lab’s 2024 "Moments to Movements" Hackathon. We are grateful to our Hackathon participants, judges, and advisors for demonstrating the power of community by working together to tackle tough equity and inclusion challenges in law. More than 100 law firm partners, legal department leaders, and industry experts will be in New York in July to share their solutions for advancing inclusivity in the legal profession. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gsRraXZa If you are interested in attending the Hackathon, reach out to [email protected] for more information. #InclusiveWorkplaces #Community #LawFirms #LegalDepartments
Diversity Lab
Professional Services
San Francisco, CA 4,638 followers
Boosting diversity through innovation, data, and behavioral science
About us
Diversity Lab works with law firms and legal departments across the globe to create more fair, equitable, and inclusive communities and workplaces. We disrupt bias in talent systems by embedding structure, accountability, and transparency. We leverage data, behavioral science, and design thinking to create and pilot experimental ideas with more than 300 leading law firms and legal departments across the U.S. and beyond. In collaboration with our clients, we measure the results and share the lessons learned with the broader legal community. Our inaugural project – the OnRamp Fellowship – is now the largest re-entry program for lawyers returning to the profession after an extended career hiatus. To inspire others to develop and experiment with innovative initiatives such as the Fellowship, we launched the Women in Law Hackathon in 2016, and the Diversity in Law Hackathon series in 2018. These first-of-their-kind "Shark Tank" style pitch competitions brought together 200 high-level law firm partners, legal department leaders, talent experts, and law students in small teams working together to generate ideas to increase diversity and inclusion in the legal profession. The Mansfield Rule is an idea that was generated by one of the Women in Law Hackathon teams and further developed by Diversity Lab. Starting with the first iteration in 2017, which included more than 40 law firms and now includes 200+ firms, Diversity Lab has measured and reported significant progress in the Certified firms’ pipelines to leadership. As a result of its success, there is now a version for midsize firms and legal departments and we recently expanded into the UK. In 2020, Diversity Lab launched the Move the Needle Fund (MTN), the first-ever collaboration among 30 legal departments, four law firms, and a dozen community leaders designed to test and measure research-backed “bias interrupters.”
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http://www.diversitylab.com
External link for Diversity Lab
- Industry
- Professional Services
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2013
- Specialties
- Innovative Talent Management Projects, Recruitment, Development, and Diversity Practices, Talent Data & Design-Thinking, Talent R&D, and Inclusion and Equity
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San Francisco, CA 90004, US
Employees at Diversity Lab
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Aurelia Spivey
Legal Industry Marketing, Communications & Business Development Professional │ Host Pricing Matters Podcast │ Executive Coach
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Marc Goblot
Digital Diversity Lab and Social Innovation
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Caren Ulrich Stacy
Diversity Lab CEO | Tory Burch Foundation Fellow | USPTO Lead DEIA Advisor
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Toni Wells
Business Development Strategist | DEI Proponent
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Join ChIPs Network and Diversity Lab's Founder and CEO, Caren Ulrich Stacy, today at 11 a.m. PDT for the next iteration of their DEIB series, focused on advances in gender equity and inclusion for all in law firms. #Inclusion #LegalProfession #DEI
Join ChIPs for the next iteration of our DEIB series! This virtual conversation will be focused on how firms and organizations can continue to move the needle and will explore what data shows works to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion amongst all levels of firms, from associates to the C-suite. Featuring Diversity Lab Founder and CEO Caren Ulrich Stacy, this is a must-attend conversation. RSVP now: https://lnkd.in/g48qqXfB
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Legal department leaders, do you have the resources to advance your DEI priorities? We invite you to join leaders like David Snieg at Mortenson, one of the 40+ legal departments participating in the Diversity Dividends Collective. Participation benefits include access to our Knowledge Bank with customized resources, including detailed communication guides and templates, to help leaders like Dave engage in productive DEI conversations with their law firms more efficiently. As part of the Diversity Dividends Collective, Diversity Lab partners with legal departments to collect and analyze standardized data on five key metrics that have been proven to drive inclusive workplaces in the legal profession. Diversity Lab reduces the time spent by legal departments collecting and analyzing data and empowers legal departments to partner with firms to develop and advance inclusivity across their matters. In its third year, the Diversity Dividends Collective data collection yielded a 93% survey completion rate across 320+ firms and 650+ client teams - the most extensive data on outside counsel team diversity ever collected. If you would like to learn more about the Diversity Dividends Collective, connect with Valerie Portillo at [email protected] or visit our website at https://lnkd.in/ggrdU2n8 #DEI #LegalDepartments #Data #OutsideCounselFirms
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Diversity Lab is proud to announce that more law firms than EVER before have committed to the 2024–25 Mansfield Certification process! This is proof. DEI is not dead. With 365+ US, UK, and Canadian firms — including 19 new firms — seeking Certification in this next cohort, the Mansfield community has never been stronger! These firms are showing that the legal profession is continuing to live its values and ensure that all of their talent has a transparent, fair, and equal opportunity to be considered for advancement into leadership. Several top firms have expressed their reasons for staying committed to this important work: Heather McDevitt, Chair at White & Case LLP said: “White & Case was one of the first firms to adopt Mansfield’s principles in 2017. We remain committed to the principles because a transparent and equitable approach to creating leadership opportunities for everyone benefits our talent and our clients and is an important contributor to our success.” And the leaders at Sidley Austin LLP have this to say: “We are proud to be part of the growing list of law firms demonstrating their commitment to inclusivity and talent retention through actions that have a proven track record. Adopting Mansfield reflects Sidley’s confidence in our Built to Win programs developed to ensure our attorneys have the opportunity for success and advancement that our clients expect from us,” said Yvette Ostolaza, Sidley’s Management Committee Chair. Mike Schmidtberger, Sidley’s Executive Committee Chair, added, “We share the Mansfield Certification goal of ensuring fair and equal opportunity for all lawyers. It aligns with Sidley’s mission to attract outstanding lawyers who reflect the global marketplace and the communities that we serve, and to help them reach their full potential.” Year-over-year participation in Mansfield has proven to help firms make substantial progress in diversifying their leadership ranks. Check out this article authored by two data science professors in The American Lawyer: https://lnkd.in/gbfbJHXw These Mansfield firms don’t just say they value DEI. They are taking measurable actions to ensure leadership opportunities are more inclusive. We are so honored to work with them! Read the full press release here: https://lnkd.in/gF9Kuq55 #Mansfield #DEIinLaw #DEI #Inclusion #LeadershipDiversity #InclusiveTalent
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Thank you, Vance Graves, for representing Diversity Lab at this important event. It's great to see our growing team continue to build connections across the legal community. 🧡 #LavendarLaw #DEI #LegalProfession
Last week, I had the amazing opportunity to attend the National LGBTQ+ Bar Association’s annual Lavender Law conference in Washington, D.C. At first, I was a bit nervous. As someone with less than a year's experience in the legal profession, attending on behalf of Diversity Lab was daunting, to say the least. But the more sessions I attended and the more people I spoke to, the more comfortable and confident I felt! At the career fair, I spoke with representatives from various firms and legal departments that Diversity Lab works with. I also had the chance to share more about our work with those who were unfamiliar with it. In addition to sharing more about Diversity Lab and attending informative sessions, I met many great folks at the Black LGBTQ+ Legal Professionals Caucus Dinner! Special shout out to some of the impressive speakers and attendees I got to meet while in D.C.: Hillary Irvin, Stephen Kulp, Christian Tanja, Michelle Peak, Jazmine Perry, M.S., CSM, Andy Izenson, Matthew Berntsen, Lorrette Fisher, Candelario Saldana, Koplan Nwabuoku, Sam Buchbauer, Russell King, Curt H., Lynn Simon-Thomas, Monica Allard, Ana G. Jarquin, and so many more!
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Thank you to Meritas Law Firms Worldwide and Keiko Sugisaka at Maslon LLP for highlighting how participating in Mansfield Certification gives law firms and legal departments confidence that their DEI efforts are effective, transparent, and inclusive. “It was an easy decision to pursue Mansfield Certification once it opened to mid-sized firms,” says Keiko Sugisaka, Partner and Firm Chair at Maslon LLP, the Meritas member firm in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. “The process is a reflection of our values as a firm in being welcoming and inclusive; investing in our human capital; finding, hiring, and retaining the best talent so we can provide the best service to our clients; and being leaders in our community.” Diversity Lab is proud to partner with mid-size firms like Maslon LLP Lab launched the mid-size firm Mansfield Certification in 2020 with 70 firms, which has more than doubled to a community of 160+ mid-size Mansfield firms. You can read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/gPyXyqsG #Mansfield #LegalDepartments #MidSizeLawFirms #DEI
Moving the Needle on DEI: A Primer on the Mansfield Rule
meritas.org
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Thank you to Amanda O'Brien at The American Lawyer for highlighting the continued momentum of DEI in the legal profession - “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.” In the article, “Diversity Pros Hope Work Allocation Offers a Key to Building Inclusive Law Firms,” Amanda spoke with Jay Williams, finance enforcement and litigation partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, who shared, “I wanted to get involved in a project that could benefit the legal profession as a whole. … As a partner at a Big Law firm, I feel a moral responsibility to improve the profession and make it better for everybody.” The hackers’ solutions ranged from apps that empower individuals to take ownership and action for advancing inclusivity in law to tools for ensuring equitable distribution of high-visibility, quality work for career advancement. The solutions also included refreshed approaches for sponsorship opportunities that deepen business connections between in-house lawyers and their outside counsel firms. Thank you again to ALL the hackers, DEI experts, judges, and spectators who showed up to do the work. We look forward to putting these ideas into action with you! Read the full article to learn: https://lnkd.in/gqPYRED7 #DEI #MomentstoMovements #InclusiveWorkplaces #LegalProfession
Diversity Pros Hope Work Allocation Offers a Key to Building Inclusive Law Firms | The American Lawyer
law.com
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We’re excited to hear from Teressa Barillas, Assistant General Counsel, Legal Innovation and Operations at Con Edison, and Norma Davis-Atkins, Senior CLO Group Program Manager at Bridgestone Americas, on Diversity Lab’s Community Impact webinar this Thursday, July 18th! They will share how their legal departments' participation in the Diversity Dividends Collective (DDC) helps turn data into actionable partnerships with their outside counsel teams. Diversity Lab will also share trends and insights from the latest DDC data collection effort, which analyzed data from 300+ law firms to track progress across proven inclusivity metrics, including access to high-quality work, client interactions, financial credit for new or expanded work, and team leadership. If you are a legal department or legal operations leader and want to join the webinar this Thursday, July 18th, to learn more about having meaningful, data-backed conversations with your outside counsel teams, please contact [email protected]. Learn more about the Diversity Dividends Collective: https://lnkd.in/gZUNx86K #DiversityDividendsCollective #LegalDepartments #DataBackedConversations #OutsideCounselTeams
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The Diversity Lab team is excited to gather with our incredible community at tomorrow’s Moments to Movements Hackathon and our 10-year anniversary celebration! We are grateful to our Hackathon participants, judges, and advisors for demonstrating the power of community by working together to tackle tough equity and inclusion challenges in law. We can’t wait to hear about the solutions that our teams have created! Learn more: https://lnkd.in/erFB45ia #DEIHackathon #2024MomentsToMovements #LawFirms #LegalDepartments
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The Diversity Lab team is coming to New York on July 11 for the Moments to Movements Hackathon and to celebrate 10 years of Diversity Lab! The Hackathon is a Shark Tank-style competition. This year, 10 teams of law firm partners and in-house counsel leaders will pitch their solutions to create a more inclusive legal profession. That evening, we will announce our Hackathon winners during our 10th Anniversary Celebration! If you’re in town and interested in joining us for the Hackathon Pitch Day and/or our evening celebration, please contact [email protected]. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/erFB45ia #DEIHackathon #2024MomentsToMovements #LawFirms #LegalDepartments
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