Milbank Hires AmEx Exec to Bolster Diversity Efforts (1)

Milbank has hired a former American Express Co. executive to boost its diversity and inclusion efforts, after last year’s protests and reckoning with longstanding racial inequities put a spotlight on Big Law’s diversity shortcomings.

Mikeisha Anderson Jones, the firm’s first global chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer, was previously vice president of Global Inclusion & Diversity at American Express. At Milbank she’ll lead DEI strategies across the New York-founded firm, which has offices on multiple continents.

Big Law has long struggled to hire, retain, and promote lawyers from diverse backgrounds and has recently unveiled new DEI initiatives to achieve those ...