March 5, 2021 at 3:49 PM
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In our recent conversation about Black History Month, my colleague Monique Burt Williams CEO of Cadence Counsel, which focuses exclusively on the placement of in-house counsel identified corporate legal departments that are leaders in advancing diversity. One company she highlighted was AbbVie, the Chicago-based, Fortune 100 biopharmaceutical company behind blockbuster drugs like Humira and Imbruvica. Under the leadership and vision of chief legal officer Laura Schumacher who has led its legal department since AbbVie became independent from Abbott Laboratories in 2013, and who previously was General Counsel at Abbott AbbVie has tirelessly promoted diversity, equity, and inclusion, in the legal profession and beyond.
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January 15, 2021 at 1:01 PM
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Yusuf Zakir (photo courtesy of Davis Wright Tremaine)
As we know all too well, 2020 was a challenging year for us as individuals, for the legal profession, and for the nation. But the year was not without its positive developments. In my view, the most significant positive change within Biglaw last year was an increased commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
In fact, I would describe 2020 as the year that Biglaw got serious about diversity. At Lateral Link, in practically every meeting we took with firms to discuss their talent needs, diversity was a central focus. And it wasn’t just all talk and no action, with firms boasting about their commitment to diversity but not doing anything differently. I saw many situations where firms really
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Left to right, top to bottom: Monique Burt Williams, Brittanie Chin-Merkerson, Olga V. Mack, Bill Kirst, Julie Honor, and David Lat (photos via Lateral Link).
The year 2020 has been full of changes some bad, some good, but all important and necessary for us to deal with, both as lawyers and as human beings. And many of these changes have involved technology for example, the increased adoption and use of videoconferencing platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Teams.
If you’re seeking guidance in terms of how to navigate these changing times, you’ve come to the right place. Let’s talk about change management the process, tools, and techniques used to manage the human side of change.