Measurement | Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)

Creating systems to track progress and the achievement of DE&I goals. This includes collecting and using DE&I data when making decisions and communicating outcomes in a transparent and easily understood format.

Early

Buy-in from leadership to collect and track DEI metrics
Types of metrics are determined and defined
Data privacy and security concerns are addressed
Data collection plan (including process and systems) is rolled out to targeted firms and implementation begins

Intermediate

Wide-scale data is harvested from outside law firms and potentially other legal service providers
Data management systems in place to track, measure, analyze, and report on metrics
Baseline data is established
KPIs and performance targets are determined
Benchmarking may also be a feature of the measurement program

Advanced

DEI performance data is managed in a structured environment such as a dashboard
Capability exists to track trends, perform comparative analysis, and generate DEI program as well as individual law firm scorecards showing performance against targets
DEI data is included in performance evaluations in a way to drive actions, be it corrective or for recognition and reward purposes
DEI performance is taken into to consideration for when assessing leadership compensation Measurement of DEI data in global regions is determined and data collection plan is developed