Attracting, Retaining, and Advancing LGBT Lawyers

Attracting, Advancing, and Retaining LGBT Lawyers is now available in PDF format allowing for rapid distibution through your Firm.

Through to 5pm April 28th you can order your copy and benefit from a $250 discount - making your copy just $195

To order your copy simply reply to this email quoting the code ME-PDF1

Below is a very brief overview of the report, and a full executive summary can be found here

A full executive summary, introduction and table of contents are available here:
http://www.womenlegalmagazine.com/Publication.asp?pubid=478847E7-AE85-4B38-8959-8F5BFAD7BD7C

Attracting, Advancing, and Retaining LGBT Lawyers is a comprehensive step-by-step guide to not only overcoming the challenges associated with the complex issues that lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender (“LGBT”) lawyers face in the modern legal profession, but also how these issues impact the Law firms that they work for.

Although LGBT individuals have made significant progress towards equality in many social arenas, many still face negative stereotypes, harassment, and bias in the workplace. With clients, law students, and lateral candidates increasingly focused on diversity, law firms must examine their workplace policies, procedures, and cultures to encourage and embrace diversity and ensure that all attorneys experience a respectful and collegial working environment.

Creating diverse workplaces makes good business sense, as many law firms have already discovered. Clients often expect their outside legal counsel to have inclusive workplace policies and diverse client service teams.

Authored by Lisa Linsky (McDermott Will & Emery) and Amy Beard (McDermott Will & Emery) the first part of this report provides a comprehensive overview exploring:

1. The challenges that LGBT attorneys face;
2. Initiatives that firms can use to recruit LGBT attorneys (and strategies attorneys and law students can use to seek out LGBT-friendly firms and programs);
3. The ways in which firms can make their workplaces more welcoming to LGBT attorneys.

The second part of this report comprises of case studies, insight, contributions and practical real world examples from firms and individuals who have achieved high levels of success and recognition including:

C. Elaine Arabatzis (Dickstein Shapiro LLP), Petra Braybrook (Simmons & Simmons), Denise Brogan-Kator (Rainbow Law Center PLLC), Andrew Dent (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP), James Holmes (Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP), D’Arcy Kemnitz (National LGBT Bar Association), James Leipold (National Association for Law Placement), Gail H. Morse (Jenner & Block LLP), Laura Olch (Boston University School of Law), Todd Solomon (McDermott Will & Emery LLP), Gabe Verdugo (University of Washington School of Law), Dr. Jillian T. Weiss (Jillian T. Weiss & Associates), Daniel Winterfeldt (Simmons & Simmons), Jeffrey Wolf (Williams Kastner), and Ann Young (New York Law School), amongst others.

They expand on the topics covered in part one in more depth including:

- The challenges facing LGBT attorneys,
- The need for law firms to encourage diversity
- Methods by which law firms can become more diverse
- Creating cultures of inclusion to retain and attract top LGBT legal talent
- Retaining LGBT attorneys with pro bono and community service initiatives
- Mentoring LGBT attorneys to advance their careers and create firm leaders
- Implementing employee benefits policies to cover domestic partner and other same-sex partner benefits as recruitment and retention tools.

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To order your copy for just $195 (normally $445) contact us before 5pm April 28th quoting the code ME-PDF1:

- phone - +1 309 495 2853;
- e-mail - melam@ark-group.com

Creating the Successful Law Firm Intranet

Creating a Successful Law Firm Intranet

An essential guide to enabling you to create a successful intranet management team, design a successful project plan and successfully develop, launch and maintain your intranet into the future.

Through till 5pm April 8th you can order your copy for just $195 (excluding shipping)

To order your copy, simply email melam@ark-group.com quoting the code ME-LI2.

This report provides iis a step-by-step look at each vital phase of a successful intranet redesign project. It explains why user involvement is critical, how to engage users in an intranet project and what tasks users will perform throughout the life-cycle of the intranet project.

Creating a Successful Law Firm Intranet begins with guidance on how to build a compelling business case that will gain the support needed to help ensure the project is a success from the outset and how to identify the roles and responsibilities of your team.

A full executive summary, introduction and table of contents are available here

Overview:

Creating the Successful Law Firm Intranet begins by addressing and clearly defining:

- Where to begin: building the business case for an intranet
- Who to include: why governance is critical to a successful intranet
- How to do it: methodology to follow for a successful intranet project:

It covers the 5 key phases of an intranet redesign project including:

- Research,
- Design,
- Development,
- Rollout,
- Measurement and Maintenance

Each of these phases include processes, helpful hints and suggested tools that will enable a firm to successfully move to the next phase in the process. Expected deliverables and outcomes of the phase are explained and illustrated.

Creating the Successful Law Frim Intranet features numerous case studies from firms including Baker Donelson, Reed Smith, Torys, amongst others, that demonstrate the methodology and processes being used successfully or in some cases demonstrating how not using these methods can be disastrous.

Who should read this report:
This report is intended for use by intranet managers, librarians, chief knowledge officers, executive administrators, management committee members, chief information officers and anyone who is a champion, manager, creator, developer or user of a law firm’s intranet.

How to order:

To order your copy for just $195 (excluding shipping) contact us before 5pm April 8th quoting the code ME-LI2:
- phone - +1 309 495 2853;
- e-mail - melam@ark-group.com