Sasha Carbone, associate general counsel and assistant corporate secretary of the American Arbitration Association, discusses the organization’s efforts to improve diversity and inclusion – from their roster to their staff and beyond.
Continue Reading Fostering DEI Using Training, Mentorship, and Networking Opportunities
Joy Fuhr, partner with McGuireWoods, discusses her role in strengthening women’s leadership and opportunities at the firm, as well as the ways those lessons can be applied to help everyone be more successful – as lawyers and in life.
Continue Reading Maximizing Individual Talent and Creating Team Success
Kimberly Taylor, president of JAMS, discusses the importance of inclusion in the alternative dispute resolution community, including the vital role that women play at JAMS and areas of improvement for the future.
Continue Reading Diversifying the World of ADR
In this interview with Corporate Counsel Business Journal, Marci Hunter, diversity, equity and inclusion analyst with Barnes & Thornburg, discusses the importance of data in advancing diversity at law firms.
Continue Reading Data Collection Meets Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
The world has changed a lot since our 2020 report. A global pandemic; an ongoing reckoning on race, inequality and social justice; a climate crisis; an economic shock; and increased political polarization have created challenging dynamics for companies and boards globally.
Continue Reading A Brave New World: Top 10 Topics for Directors in 2021
Jonah Paransky, executive vice president and general manager of Wolters Kluwer’s ELM Solutions, reflects on the effects COVID-19 will have on the legal industry moving forward, as it relates to diversity, alternative legal service providers, and what he’s both concerned and excited for looking ahead.
Continue Reading Expectations For the Legal Industry Moving Forward
Bjarne P. Tellmann, CLO and GC of Pearson, recently dished up a bit of advice for law departments facing continuing resource restraints
Continue Reading Special Special Ops
The Gates Foundation’s Keith Matthews explains what satisfies his soul and makes him happy to come to work every day.
CCBJ: Your career followed an interesting and varied path to the Gates Foundation. Can you tell us about that?
Keith Matthews: Professionally, my first job out of college was as a credit analyst and later a middle-market loan officer at what is now JPMorgan Chase. With that background – and with a finance degree from college – I knew early on in my career that I wanted to focus on transactional work.
Continue Reading Helping the Client Achieve Its Objective: Saving Lives
Thomson Reuters recently released the first edition of a new semiannual report focused on legal department operations. It’s called the Legal Tracker LDO Index Benchmarking & Trends Report, which puts it squarely under the company’s e-billing and matter management brand, Legal Tracker. (Tracker evolved out of Thomson’s 2010 acquisition of Serengeti and has become the most widely used e-billing platform in the world.)
Continue Reading Backstory: From Chaos to Clout