Orrick Hires New Leader for Diversity Efforts

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has hired a new senior leader to help strengthen its ties to clients in a new diversity and inclusion initiative.

Duane Hughes has joined Orrick as the managing director of inclusion and Move the Needle. The Move the Needle Fund is a five-year, $5 million collaboration between law firms, in-house counsel, and diversity incubator the Diversity Lab to address the persistent diversity deficit in the legal profession.

Law firms have been under increasing pressure to diversify their ranks. A 2019 study by the National Association for Law Placement published found that while women and minorities have ...