ABA s Model Diversity Survey can help with DEI strategies
Panelists speak at the ABA Techshow 2021 panel called “Harnessing and Maximizing Technology and Data to Drive Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession.”
While most lawyers are passionate about diversity, equity and inclusion, they still struggle with actions and tangible outcomes in this space, Daniel Winterfeldt said during a Monday afternoon ABA Techshow panel called “Harnessing and Maximizing Technology and Data to Drive Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession.”
The good news is, there are existing solutions, such as the ABA’s 2020 Model Diversity Survey Report, that can help move the needle forward, added Winterfeldt, a partner in Reed Smith’s global capital markets practice in London and the founder of the InterLaw Diversity Forum.
ABA is on a ‘promising path forward,’ President Patricia Lee Refo says
ABA President Patricia Lee Refo addressed the House of Delegates remotely during their session at the midyear meeting.
Since taking office, ABA President Patricia Lee Refo has maintained a schedule of events that would ve once been unimaginable.
She told the House of Delegates at the 2021 ABA Midyear Meeting on Monday that in 2½ consecutive days last fall, she spoke at virtual events hosted by the Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Union Internationale des Avocats in Paris. She also, from her kitchen, attended the annual state bar conventions in both Connecticut and Wyoming.
More minorities are getting hired as associates, but law firm leadership is mostly white and male because of a diversity “bottleneck” and higher rates of minority attrition, according to an ABA survey report released Tuesday.