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The Shift: Big Law is Less Accountable Than Corporate Peers in Diversity
Appointing a chief diversity officer has become all the rage in large law firms in the last two years, but especially in the wake of the racial justice protests last summer. Just in the last few months, at least nine firms have made high-level diversity officer appointments.
