Data-Driven Strategies for Law Firm DEI Initiatives
$45
Credits in
1.00 General
Practice Areas:
Business & Professional Development, Business Development, Civil Rights, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Employment Law, Labor & Employment, Labor Law, Law Practice Management, Other, Paralegal, Professional Development
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About
This Course
After finding the right fit when hiring new associates, law firms want to retain talent and ensure attorneys receive the training and experience necessary to develop critical skills. Research and industry experience show that when associates perceive limited access to meaningful work opportunities or uneven professional development, retention suffers and firms incur significant recruiting and training costs.
This program explores how law firms can use time entry and workflow data to evaluate whether associates at comparable levels are receiving a well rounded mix of substantive assignments and training experiences. Attendees will learn practical, sustainable strategies to support consistent, skills based development, improve retention, and strengthen professional development systems in a manner consistent with applicable employment and anti-discrimination laws.
The course also addresses how firms can align associate development and staffing practices with client expectations and internal professional development initiatives, without requiring agreement with any viewpoint or adoption of any unlawful practice.
This course is designed for law firm decision-makers, including hiring partners, managing partners, and department heads; however, attorneys at any level may find it useful.
Learning Objectives:
Identify key drivers of associate retention and the role of structured professional development
Evaluate how time entry and workflow data can be used to assess distribution of training and skills-building opportunities across teams
Implement practical methods for improving consistency and transparency in work allocation and training experiences
Review current approaches used by law firms and legal industry leaders, including discussion of relevant legal developments (including Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, 600 U.S. 181 (2023)) and what it does and does not address
Design a sustainable associate development framework that supports long-term retention and performance
About the Presenters
Nancy Rapoport, Esq.
William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada
Practice Area: Ethics (+ 3 other areas)
Nancy B. Rapoport is a UNLV Distinguished Professor, the Garman Turner Gordon Professor of Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and an Affiliate Professor of Business Law and Ethics in the Lee Business School at UNLV. After receiving her B.A., summa cum laude, from Rice University in 1982 and her J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1985, she clerked for the Honorable Joseph T. Sneed III on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and then practiced law (primarily bankruptcy law) with Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco from ...
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Joseph Tiano, Jr., Esq.
Legal Decoder
Practice Area: Law Practice Management (+ 1 other areas)
After practicing law for nearly 20 years, Joe founded Legal Decoder because he saw that clients lacked the analytic tools and data to effectively price and manage the cost of legal services delivered by outside counsel. Together with Chris Miller, his Co-Founder, Joe set out to build an intelligent, data driven technology company that would revolutionize the way that legal services from outside counsel are priced and economically evaluated.Previously, Joe was a Partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP and Thelen LLP where he grew and managed all aspects of a multi-million-dollar cross-border finance practice. Entrepreneurship runs through Joe’s veins ...
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