As law firms continue to struggle in diversifying their partnership and leadership ranks, Reed Smith, Hogan Lovells and Day Pitney announced this week the hire of inclusion officers, while Weil, Gotshal & Manges is a year into a diversity education program.
Hogan Lovells hired Leslie Richards-Yellen, a former business and commercial transactions partner and chief diversity and inclusion officer at Hinshaw & Culbertson in Chicago, as the firm’s director of inclusion for the Americans in New York. Day Pitney picked up Kathy Bowman-Williams, a former vice president and regional diversity officer at Morgan Stanley, as diversity and inclusion director in Parsippany, New Jersey.
