Driving the Change
Deliberate equitability and inclusion – Elevate Services is a signatory of the EQUAL in LEGAL Statement and known for its efforts to drive equitability and
Deliberate equitability and inclusion – Elevate Services is a signatory of the EQUAL in LEGAL Statement and known for its efforts to drive equitability and
Dentons is a signatory to the EQUAL in LEGAL statement and as world’s largest law firm they want to promote an inclusive, forward-thinking, and innovative
Gender diversity in law firms positively impacts law firm success, research by Acritas and Thomson Reuters shows, with gender diverse teams in law firms achieving
Susie Beaumont and Craig Allwright – both in-house lawyers at the OLX Group – inspire us with their approach towards Diversity & Inclusion. “We regard D&I as a “business imperative” that needs to be at the heart of everything we do.
EQUAL in LEGAL Trailblazer Isabelle Deschamps on the importance of D&I: “We need to make improvements every single day.”
Contribution by Randstad Global Legal
After exploring the theory around D&I for some time, the in-house legal team at Randstad Global wanted to go beyond the policy on paper. They felt it was time to put D&I in practice. Randstad Global Legal offered Hamza Enes Kaya, a Turkish lawyer and political refugee in the Netherlands, an internship within their department.
One of the reasons that women have not advanced in equal pay, parental leave, and equitable hiring and promotion is because women have lacked male allies in the workplace. Male allyship is critical in the evolution of gender equality programs in the workplace. A new research report on allyship by future legal leaders was recently released.
Trailblazer Connie Brenton, a serial community builder in the legal ecosystem with a passion for D&I, is featured in our EQUAL in LEGAL’s trailblazers series.
What can you do as an in-house legal department in order to become more diverse and inclusive as a department and organization and embrace D&I
According to the American Bar Association, only two professions, the natural sciences, and dentistry have less diversity than law; medicine, accounting, academia, and others do considerably better.
