Diversity, an increasingly important issue in the Big Law realm, was a subject of discussion at the DLA Piper Global Technology Summit last week in Silicon Valley.

Kenji Yoshino, a prominent legal industry inclusion advocate and the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law, is the author of ”Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights,” a book that looks at why some people choose to downplay or ”cover” aspects of their identity at work, which can affect their careers.