Pictured, from left, are Carlos Davila-Caballero, director of diversity and inclusion at Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett; Eduardo Santiago-Acevedo, vice president and senior regulatory counsel at Prudential Financial; and Heather Nevitt, editor-in-chief at Corporate Counsel.
One of the best ways to get the C-suite to sign on to diversity and inclusion initiatives is to show how they can be beneficial for business, a panel at Corporate Counsel’s 2019 General Counsel Conference in New York said Thursday.
Eduardo Santiago-Acevedo, senior regulatory counsel at Prudential Financial Inc., said showing the C-suite the numbers for potential growth with diverse attorneys can motivate leaders to invest in hiring those attorneys. He said law firms do not look good in front of clients with a team of white male attorneys, and neither do business executives when boasting a non-diverse legal department.
