Gilbert LLP Partners With Legal Innovators to Diversify Our Legal Team
For several years, Gilbert LLP has partnered with Legal Innovators to bring diverse legal talent to our firm. Legal Innovators is a talent management solution that focuses on placing diverse junior lawyers in first-rate law firms and corporate legal departments. We share their determination to overcome problems others view as intractable, and their optimism that the status quo does not dictate the future. These qualities align with the values and philosophy that drive Gilbert LLP, and we are pleased to be an early adopter of the Legal Innovators approach.
Gilbert has brought in several lawyers through Legal Innovators. We hope to continue hiring through Legal Innovators in the years to come—increasing the diversity of our legal team, strengthening our firm as an institution, and doing our part to remedy historic inequities that have long plagued the legal recruiting process. These inequities have denied fair access and opportunities to minority candidates and other underserved groups and have deprived law firms and their clients of the full range of available legal talent.
At Gilbert, we never thought that there was a lack of diverse candidates who could do our work at the highest level and thrive here. But despite considerable efforts, we struggled to build a diverse legal team that reflects our values and meets our goals. We agree with the words of Dr. Wayne Frederick, the former president of Howard University: “There is no shortage of Black talent in the United States.” Rather, in addition to “[u]nconscious and institutionalized biases across industries [that] make it difficult for Black candidates to get their foot in the door . . . , many of our nation’s . . . employers lack pipelines that can connect them to Black talent.”
Legal Innovators is a game-changer in this regard, and Gilbert is enthusiastic about working with this pioneering firm to foster the diversity pipelines and structures the legal community needs, and lawyers of diverse backgrounds have every right to expect.
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More information on Legal Innovators can be found here: https://www.legal-innovators.com