Sentences with phrase «firms achieve their diversity»

As well as assisting career development, mentoring programmes can also help firms achieve their diversity goals, says Linklaters managing partner Simon Davies...

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Recently, Equilar, a research firm that focuses on board recruitment, put together a Gender Diversity Index and predicts that the board of directors on the Russell 3000 list — the 3000 largest companies based in the United States — will achieve parity, with a membership made up of 50 percent women and 50 percent men, by the fourth quarter of 2055.

The right recruitment and training process coupled with a determination at the highest level to demonstrate diversity and openness will take a firm a long way down the road to achieving its goals.

The most important point for any firm is to be clear about why it is trying to achieve diversity.

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He notes also the efforts by corporate America to pressure law firms to ratchet up their efforts to achieve meaningful diversity.

You might be frustrated at how best to achieve greater diversity in a profession that remains too white, middle - class, and male to differing degrees in differing parts; you might be anxious about how you are going to pay your way through law school and how much debt you are going to have at the end of it; alternatively, you might well be vexed about the oversupply of graduates who never achieve legal careers; you might be concerned about preserving the unique identity of your profession (as many at the Bar are); or you might just want to ensure that new recruits in law firms have a basic grip of the fundamentals and can do something useful on day one.

The firm is committed to supporting efforts designed to achieve greater diversity in the legal profession.

Part 2 of the survey findings, which will be published in the May 2005 issue, will discuss the forces driving law firm diversity efforts and the results firms have achieved so far.

In achieving this commitment, starting in the summer of 2011 the Firm wishes to offer an opportunity for an undergraduate student from a Canadian University to work in a law firm environment focussing on equity and diversity initiatives within the FFirm wishes to offer an opportunity for an undergraduate student from a Canadian University to work in a law firm environment focussing on equity and diversity initiatives within the Ffirm environment focussing on equity and diversity initiatives within the FirmFirm.

Law firms blow a lot of rhetorical hot air affirming their commitment to achieving gender diversity in the workplace.

The project, initiated by the Society of Asian Lawyers, will focus on best practice in procurement policy for the purchase of legal services with the aim of achieving greater fairness and diversity within large City firms.

We achieve our vision through the pursuit of our core values, which we define as Integrity, Client Service, Innovation, One Firm, and Diversity.