A trio of in-house lawyers at Silicon Valley technology companies encouraged law firms to keep up their efforts on diversity and inclusion, consider sending their associates to work in-house on secondment, and to focus on personal relationships with clients in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tammy Albarrán, deputy general counsel of Uber Technologies Inc., Harvey Anderson, general counsel of HP Inc., and William Mosley, counsel, global litigation and investigations at Applied Materials, all spoke as part of a Zoom videoconference panel sponsored by the Northern California chapter of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers moderated by U.S. District Judge Edward Davila of the Northern District of California Wednesday night.