Wake Up Call: Firms With More Women Partners Lack DEI Oomph

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• Law firms that recruited more women into senior management than peer firms were less likely to engage with internal diversity practices, said a couple of professors who studied patterns among the top 250 law firms. The profs found that firms with a higher percentage of women partners were less likely to give priority to diversity-focused practices, including hiring full-time DEI officers, conducting firmwide diversity training, and strengthening the firm’s mentoring program for diverse attorneys. (CLS Blue Sky Blog ...