Webinar: Supporting diverse talent in the legal industry
Stephanie Bruckl • 24 September 2020
Diverse teams are proven to be more creative, innovative and perform better overall.
Yet for many businesses, the challenge is two-fold – not only how to best attract and hire more diverse legal teams, but also how to maintain and engage them.
With the help of a brilliant panel, whose expertise spans both the legal and diversity arenas, we unpicked some of these challenges in our recent webinar.
Watch our webinar to learn about:
- How to attract and recruit more diverse legal teams
- How the best companies are retaining diverse legal talent
- Practical steps you can take, both personally and professionally, to help support diverse talent in the legal industry
Our latest insights
Lateral hiring is at record levels. Business cases are more rigorous than they have ever been, and the investment in finding and landing senior talent has never been higher. And yet integration outcomes remain stubbornly inconsistent. The hire is getting more sophisticated but what happens next often is not.
For a long time, the war for talent was a skills race. Which candidate had done the launch, led the transformation, shipped the product. The logic was simple: find the person who has already done the thing you need done. That logic no longer holds.
Ask most HR leaders to describe strategic workforce planning and you'll get a familiar answer: forecasting headcount, modelling future demand, identifying gaps.
Pushback from leadership is often framed as resistance to HR. In practice, it usually points to something else. It signals that HR is not yet shaping decisions at the level it could be.