New Scoring Tool Assesses Outside Law Firms' DEI Efforts | Corporate Counsel - Law.com

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• The scoring system looks at law firm demographics, recruitment, retention and attrition, and promotions for minorities.
• The MCCA will name the five large law firms that received the highest scores as calculated from the scorecard.
• To create the scorecard, the MCCA drew on 14 years of data from an annual diversity survey.

The Minority Corporate Counsel Association introduced Monday a new tool to help companies assess the diversity efforts of their outside law firms and help those firms improve their performance.

Dubbed the “diversity scorecard,” the ranking assesses how a law firm is performing in four categories: demographics; recruitment; retention and attrition; and promotions for women and diverse groups, especially those from underrepresented racial and ethnic backgrounds.

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source: https://www.law.com/corpcounsel/2021/10/11/new-scoring-tool-assesses-outside-law-firms-dei-efforts/

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