The Global Legal Post reports…
Group tasked with overseeing allyship and anti-racism training and reviewing recruitment programmes
Baker McKenzie has set up a task force to improve racial and ethnic diversity across the firm’s 77 offices.
The Global Race & Ethnicity Task Force will be led by Chicago-based partner Miguel Noyola and include Constanze Ulmer-Eilfort, chair of the firm’s global diversity and inclusion committee, and Anna Brown, director of global diversity and inclusion.
Its brief is to help ‘implement and operationalise programmes to advance racial and ethnic diversity’.
It will ‘oversee allyship and anti-racism training; sponsorship of our black colleagues and members of other underrepresented racial and ethnic groups; and a review of our recruitment and client programmes’.
The initiative is the latest of a wave measures being taken by the legal profession in the US and across the world in response to the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on 25 May.
Ulmer-Eilfort said: “Change starts from within, and we must all embrace the need for change together. We are encouraging everyone to learn, reflect and work to become a more active ally. We need to open our minds and our hearts to the experiences of our black community — there is so much for us to learn, to understand, and to reflect upon before change happens.”
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