Diversity

How Law Firm Co-founder Grace Wen Mastered the Art of Inquiry, Honed Her Listening Skills and Advanced Her Career

Grace Wen, a co-founding partner of O’Prey Wen LLP, has maintained a successful legal career as a litigator in private practice, an in-house corporate investigations…

Natalie Runyon September 25, 2019

Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color Launches Video Series with Paula Edgar (Part 2)

Paula Edgar, Partner at Inclusion Strategy Solutions LLC, provides innovative and strategic solutions for organizational diversity efforts, intercultural competence initiatives, sexual harassment prevention, and EEO…

Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color September 24, 2019

New White Paper: Delta Competency Model Sees Entrepreneurial Mindset & Adaptability as Top Lawyer Skills

The legal education and professional development markets remain largely behind the times for providing the skills, training, and competencies required for lawyers to be successful…

Natalie Runyon September 17, 2019

The Value of Creating & Keeping Your Network

As an in-house attorney, it’s easy to become all-consumed by the daily challenges of your job and persuade yourself that networking is unnecessary. Unlike law…

Jaimala K. Pai September 16, 2019

New Podcast: Millennial Lawyers Discuss Diversity & Inclusion Innovations to Advance Progress

As a follow-up to Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color’s interview with the Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession’s CEO Sandra Yamate on…

Natalie Runyon September 12, 2019

Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color Launches Video Series with Paula Edgar (Part 1)

Paula Edgar, Partner at Inclusion Strategy Solutions LLC, provides innovative and strategic solutions for organizational diversity efforts, intercultural competence initiatives, sexual harassment prevention, and EEO…

Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color September 10, 2019

Gender Balance in Pitch and Matter Teams Lead to the Greatest Progress in Gender Diversity, TWLL UK/Acritas Research Finds

In June, Thomson Reuters Transforming Women’s Leadership in the Law (TWLL) UK and UK research firm Acritas released findings from their research into the effectiveness…

Transforming Womens Leadership September 05, 2019

Associate Lawyers Are Driving the Market for Demand, but also for Compensation

The recently released Peer Monitor Index for the second quarter of 2019 highlighted a few encouraging and some discouraging signs that mimic half-year results. Digging deeper into…

Isaac Brooks September 03, 2019

Midsize Law Firms: 5 Secrets to Improve Your Talent Strategy for Associates

In the State the of the Legal Market: A View from Midsize Firms, associates were shown to be the most productive out of all of…

Thomson Reuters Institute September 03, 2019

John Quinn, Partner at Kaplan Hecker, Discusses the Firm’s Social Change Agenda as a Growth Strategy

John Quinn left a thriving career in Big Law after seven years as a litigator to help found Kaplan Hecker & Fink, a litigation boutique…

Thomson Reuters Institute August 28, 2019

Levenfeld Pearlstein Takes a Holistic View of Well-Being as a Business Strategy in the Client Experience

Angie Hickey, CEO of Levenfeld Pearlstein (LP), is a forward-thinking executive in the legal industry. She is widely recognized as a trailblazer and authority in…

Natalie Runyon August 27, 2019

New Podcast: Encouraging Diversity and Inclusion by Treating People as Unique Individuals

In our new podcast, Natalie Runyon, Director of Enterprise Content for Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute and content strategist for the Next Gen Leadership: Advancing…

Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color August 22, 2019