Brad Smith, vice chair and president of Microsoft Corporation: “All of us who are in business will need to decide, what is the mission of our company? How do we fulfill our broader commitments? How do we synthesize these different needs? And how do we do it in a way that makes sustainable tangible progress?”
For the past year, ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) has become the key topic of discussion for corporations, their boards, investors, and stakeholders. While the
Necessary and long overdue requirements imposed This week, the Coca-Cola legal department shared an important letter with their outside counsel. It details their commitment to
Despite equality in workplace work-family policies — cultures at many legal employers and within society at large still reinforce imbalanced gender roles in caregiving 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
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.”
Few professions are currently in a better place to change the world when it comes to the pursuit of equality than the legal profession.
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.
In times of crisis we need to double down on D&I efforts. We can learn in this respect from the U.S. Bank’s legal ops team under the leadership of General Counsel Jim Chosy.
