The Black General Counsel Project: BorgWarner’s Tonit Calaway

BorgWarner, Inc.‘s chief legal officer and chief administrative officer Tonit Calaway makes it a priority to understand all of her outside service providers’ diversity and inclusion practices, from internship selection processes to origination credit.

“What I’ve outlined is not simply a ‘check the box’ exercise,” Calaway said in a recent Bloomberg Law survey.

She elaborated,"I often demand that a certain file be represented by a talented diverse lawyer and I ask the question of who gets the billing . If the answer is a name that is different than that of the diverse lawyer representing me, then there is ...