Diversity and Inclusion

If your company is one of many that signed on to ABA 113 – or you're someone who is serious about building a more diverse and inclusive team – this special session co-hosted by the ACC and Clifford Chance is not to be missed. 

Tiernan Brady is one of the world's most successful change agents, having led the winning marriage equality campaigns in both Ireland and Australia. Importantly, each nationwide victory was not achieved through a court ruling (as is the case in the US), but by a vote of the people. How did Brady accomplish it – and what lessons can you take from his approach to benefit your own organization?  

In 2019, Brady joined Clifford Chance as its Global Director of Inclusion. In addition to helping the Firm accelerate its own progress in this area, he was tasked by Firm leadership to use his expertise to assist clients and other organizations who share Clifford Chance's broad commitment to diversity and inclusion.  This is your opportunity to take advantage of insights that have prompted many to rethink their longstanding approaches to diversity and inclusion.    

The Judicial Diversity Summit has been held every five years since 2006 to assess the efforts to increase judicial diversity in California, and to make recommendations for future activities and initiatives to diversify the judiciary. This year, the summit is titled Stronger Together: Judicial Diversity Summit 2021, and will be held remotely on three Tuesday evenings on September 14, 21 and 28. The intended audience for the summit is judicial officers, attorneys, and law students.

Summit Day 3: Judicial Diversity Tomorrow
 

The Judicial Diversity Summit has been held every five years since 2006 to assess the efforts to increase judicial diversity in California, and to make recommendations for future activities and initiatives to diversify the judiciary. This year, the summit is titled Stronger Together: Judicial Diversity Summit 2021, and will be held remotely on three Tuesday evenings on September 14, 21 and 28. The intended audience for the summit is judicial officers, attorneys, and law students.

Summit Day 2: Sharing What Is Working - "Side Bars"
 

The Judicial Diversity Summit has been held every five years since 2006 to assess the efforts to increase judicial diversity in California, and to make recommendations for future activities and initiatives to diversify the judiciary. This year, the summit is titled Stronger Together: Judicial Diversity Summit 2021, and will be held remotely on three Tuesday evenings on September 14, 21 and 28. The intended audience for the summit is judicial officers, attorneys, and law students.

Summit Day 1: Judicial Diversity Today
Opening remarks by Hon. Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, Chief Justice of California

Please join attorneys from Latham & Watkins in a discussion of trends and recent developments regarding board diversity.  We will discuss board composition trends, board diversity legislation, and shareholder litigation brought against the directors of companies such alleging breaches of the duty of care and loyalty based on asserted insufficient commitment to diversity at the board level and within the company.   

Join us for the second installment of our two-part introductory Mintz ESG webinar series. ESG — environmental, social, and governance — criteria are becoming increasingly central to the evaluation of investment options, corporate actions, and corporate performance. As a growing number of companies and investors embrace ESG, it is evolving to encompass a broad spectrum of societal developments that shape shareholder interests. Some of these issues include environmental sustainability, the economic, community, and health effects of the coronavirus pandemic, the increased focus on gender and racial equity in board composition, and the call for racial justice — both in the boardroom and throughout corporate America.

In this webinar, members of Mintz’s multidisciplinary ESG team and Silda Wall Spitzer, CEO & Publisher of New York Makers, will explore ESG principles as value-creation vehicles through social impact investing and diversity and inclusion in the C-suite and boardroom.

This session will cover:
• How social impact investing is linked to business purpose and creating both investment and social value
• How emerging legal issues are affecting environmental and social impact investing
• How statutory initiatives and mandates aimed at regulating gender and racial balance for board composition and social justice–related derivative litigation impact board governance
• How corporate diversity, inclusion, and equity initiatives influence ESG metrics
 

As the world of work continues to evolve, it is now more critical for organizations to provide the best workplace experience for their communities. Companies that have focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion are more likely to exceed their financial goals by up to 20%, 35% more likely to perform at a higher level, and see 15 times more revenue and sales*.

Join our panel of DE&I experts to learn:

• How to launch employee resource groups
• The importance of diverse sourcing & recruiting
• Steps to take for implementing unconscious bias training
• How to write an inclusive employee handbook
• Key KPIs you should be tracking

What 2020 has Wrought and why the “D” in DEIB is not Enough:  “D”iversity is critical, but “E”quity, “I”nclusion” and “B”elonging are Paramount in Achieving and Sustaining Healthy Workplaces and Workforces.

Audience

Corporate representatives, business owners and employers motivated to create and maintain healthy spaces for employees and staff to thrive and succeed as their authentic, unadulterated  selves by identifying and working to neutralize systemic, though often invisible, barriers to equity in opportunity and outcomes, meaningful inclusion at the heart decision-making, vision-setting and leadership, and belonging.

Description of Presentation

This interactive session will both challenge and inspire attendees to resist the urge to check off the DEIB box having only satisfied the “D” for diversity and instead roll up their sleeves and dig into the weightier matters of equity, inclusion and belonging – the ingredients for sustained, meaningful diversity.  This session will examine the unprecedented and traumatic impact the year 2020 has had on employees and workforces around the country.   

Against the backdrop of the pandemic, racial unrest and reckoning, the digital divide, divisive politics and the ever-more-stark disparities between majority and minority populations, business owners, corporate representatives and employers must strategically navigate the inevitable impact this trauma will introduce into their carefully-curated eco-systems. 

The session will provide the tools necessary to create and preserve safe and healthy environments were all can contribute meaningfully, authentically and productively regardless of race, gender, religious or other affiliation.