Nixon Peabody hired veteran legal industry diversity leader Ramla Farzad as the firm’s new senior director for diversity, equity and inclusion in late January, the firm announced this week, following the departure of former chief diversity officer Rekha Chiruvolu to the RAND Corp. last July.

Farzad was most recently a DEI director at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. She joined Paul Weiss in October 2022 after three years leading DEI at K&L Gates.