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January 15, 2021 at 1:01 PM
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Yusuf Zakir (photo courtesy of Davis Wright Tremaine)
As we know all too well, 2020 was a challenging year for us as individuals, for the legal profession, and for the nation. But the year was not without its positive developments. In my view, the most significant positive change within Biglaw last year was an increased commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
In fact, I would describe 2020 as the year that Biglaw got serious about diversity. At Lateral Link, in practically every meeting we took with firms to discuss their talent needs, diversity was a central focus. And it wasn’t just all talk and no action, with firms boasting about their commitment to diversity but not doing anything differently. I saw many situations where firms really
SIUE names finalists for Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
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SIUE’s finalists for vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion include, from left, Lakesha Butler, Jessica Harris and Debbie Thomas.
EDWARDSVILLE Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has selected two internal candidates among its three finalists in the search for its first Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (VCEDI).
SIU School of Dental Medicine (SDM) Chief Diversity Officer, Director of the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and Assistant Dean for Admissions and Student Services Dr. Cornell Thomas is chairing the search committee. The candidates will participate in virtual interviews in late January and early February.
Law firm directory submissions are a crucial weapon in the drive to improve diversity
13 January 2021
Law firm directory submissions are a crucial weapon in the drive to improve diversity
It is critical the profession s leaders ensure D&I ambitions underpin their firms approach to the directories, argues Clare Murray Legal directory submissions are the most important PR exercise of the year for firms and individual lawyers. Practices are built, promotions secured, and opportunities gifted on the back of legal directory rankings. And the person who holds the pen in those submissions, holds the career of colleagues and the future leadership diversity of their firm in their hands.