Clients Should Push for Diversity at Law Firms, ABA Urges

Law firm clients are in a unique position to influence law firms’ hiring practices and should use “the power of the purse” to move the needle on diversity, a panelist at an American Bar Association program said.

“There is zero doubt that diversity fuels improved performance,” Kim Rivera, another panelist at the program said Aug. 6 during the group’s annual meeting in San Francisco.

Rivera is chief legal officer and general counsel of HP Inc.

Nevertheless, the legal profession “lags behind other professions” in diversity and inclusion efforts and corporations and law firms should collaborate to change this, an ...