Twenty Big Law firms have been dubbed “Inclusion Champions” by legal diversity organization Diversity Lab for their progress in diversity representation and tracking. Additionally, through the success of these firms, Diversity Lab has identified six empirically-backed strategies that make for a more diverse organization.

A total of 62 law firms participated in the first round of the 2021 Inclusion Blueprint. To be considered an inclusion champion, law firms had to achieve an index score of 70 out of 100 across four indicators including year-over-year progress in diversity representation and average or above-average diversity representation according to equity thresholds set by Diversity Lab.