Karyn A. Temple, senior executive vice president and global general counsel, Motion Picture Association Inc., left, and Simone Wu, senior vice president, general counsel, corporate secretary and eternal affairs, Choice Hotels International, right. Courtesy photos.
The role of an in-house counsel in diversity, equity and inclusion does not simply stop at discussing discrimination laws with a company’s human resources department—general counsel should rather redefine their mission to proactively address inclusiveness.
General counsel can play a critical strategic role in advising senior leadership how to effectively implement “systemic change” in an organization to benefit DEI initiative, two GCs said in a Wednesday discussion at ALM’s Women Influence & Power in Law conference in Washington, D.C. Karyn A. Temple, global general counsel at the Motion Picture Association, and Simone Wu, general counsel at Choice Hotels, outlined their vision of a much broader in-house counsel role.
