The Diversity Equity and Inclusion Issue | October 2022
In this issue of ABA Law Practice Today:
Your legal knowledge is only one part of who you are – your clients (and you) need your complete self. Telework enhances the inclusion of all – and especially people with disabilities. The focus on alcohol for connection and coping in the legal industry impacts our health and our inclusiveness. Use a DEIB lens to illuminate why employees are leaving your firm. LCLD is helping drive meaningful change at our firm and hundreds of others Go beyond voicing support and actively participate in advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion. Harness the power of your employees to drive meaningful inclusion at your organization. Progress on diversity, equity and inclusion issues requires a mindset that welcomes change and risk-taking. Firms need to help their attorneys feel safe to be their authentic selves at work. The extent of gender diversity at the highest levels of the legal profession is dismal. How Bryna Dahlin built a flowering cannabis practice. Even with courts reopened and pandemic restrictions lifted, eFiling is here to stay. More and more courts are allowing or requiring electronic filing for most types of legal documents. As corporate law departments bring more work in-house, a big area of focus is litigation, particularly reducing eDiscovery and data-related costs.Wholeness: Bring Your Best and Complete Self To Your Practice
Equity for People with Disabilities in the Age of Telework
To Increase Well-Being and DEIB, Let’s Evolve Beyond Alcohol Culture
DEIB Separation Anxiety
LCLD’s Role in Transformational Change in the Legal Industry
Advancing DEIB: Please Like, Comment and Share, but also Give and Join
The Amazing Power of Employee Resource Groups
Five Steps To Create A Growth Mindset Culture
Seven Steps Law Firms Can Take to Retain their Underrepresented Attorneys
The Underrepresentation of Women at the Highest Levels of the Legal Profession
LPD Women Rainmakers Making It Rain Column: Bryna Dahlin
The Top eFiling Rejection Reasons in 2022
Law Department Leaders Rein-In Litigation Costs with Six Metrics that Matter