Baker McKenzie and Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney have kicked off 2017 by hiring new diversity and inclusion officers, the latest in a series of large firms filling similar roles as they try and determine how diversity efforts fit into their businesses in a time of uncertainty and environment where women and minorities are making marginal gains in the legal workplace.
Buchanan Ingersoll recently named labor and employment partner Heather Brock in Tampa as its chief diversity and inclusion officer. Earlier this month, Baker McKenzie brought on a new North American director of diversity and inclusion in Anna Brown, who since 2001 served as Shearman & Sterling’s global director of diversity and inclusion.
