The Black General Counsel Project: Flowserve’s Lanesha Minnix

Lanesha Minnix, the chief legal officer of industrial machinery company Flowserve Corp., said that choosing to work with law firms through a diverse partner has helped build outside legal teams that are less homogeneous.

“In instances when I am hiring a new firm, I make every effort to identify a diverse partner as the ‘relationship partner’ to allow origination credit. I find when a diverse partner is lead, they tend to assemble diverse teams to work on matters,” Minnix told Bloomberg Law in a recent survey.

Black general counsel now make up over 5% of all general counsel in ...