Law firms are struggling to keep executive diversity, equity, and inclusion roles filled amid new challenges to hiring programs aimed at candidates from underrepresented backgrounds.
“I have watched people go from firm to firm and take their teams with them,” said Dru Levasseur, director of DEI at the National LGBTQ+ Bar Association and Foundation, which hosts the annual legal-diversity Lavender Law conference. “It has been alarming to see the turnover.”
About 80% of some of the top law firms have a full-time senior DEI role, according to a Bloomberg Law survey. But firms have had trouble finding and keeping ...
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