The post of the Diversity Manager is gaining importance in the legal workplace.  A flash survey conducted by Altman Weil, Inc. for 2007 reports that almost 50 percent of the firms that participated in the survey have a manager or director designated for promoting and maintaining diversity.  The survey also reported that almost 96 percent of the participating firms had a Diversity Committee.  The results show that the law firms are focusing diversity with more importance than in the previous years.

 The survey, which can be found at http://www.altmanweil.com/dir_docs/resource/6a92c732-2430-4fdd-b895-9e4335e2e86e_document.pdf shows that focusing on diversity is only a recent trend of the law firms.  Most of the diversity managers had been appointed within the last four years from this date.  Where lawyers were acting to promote diversity, it was found that the greatest number came from non-practicing lawyers, who were also partners of the firm.  In most cases, these were people who came from a background of legal issues.

So folks, that shows how the problem to comply with mandates on diversity is plaguing the minds of the law firms today.  And that’s another designation that one can work for in the law firms.