Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Summit

The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Summit: The Collaborative Blueprint is an innovative and collaborative professional development experience designed to empower leaders in the legal profession to take action toward making Connecticut a more diverse and inclusive bench and bar. Through interactive workshops and discussions, you will gain knowledge and learn strategies to help create a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment in your organization and in the State of Connecticut.

The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Summit: The Collaborative Blueprint is an innovative and collaborative professional development experience designed to empower leaders in the legal profession to take action toward making Connecticut a more diverse and inclusive bench and bar. Through interactive workshops and discussions, you will gain knowledge and learn strategies to help create a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment in your organization and in the State of Connecticut.

The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Summit: The Collaborative Blueprint is an innovative and collaborative professional development experience designed to empower leaders in the legal profession to take action toward making Connecticut a more diverse and inclusive bench and bar. Through interactive workshops and discussions, you will gain knowledge and learn strategies to help create a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment in your organization and in the State of Connecticut.

This summit focused on issues regarding retention of diverse attorneys in organizations. Specifically, the summit featured presentations emphasizing the business case for diversity and the need for organizational changes to promote an inclusive environment, as well as strategies to build and foster meaningful mentor-mentee relationships. The summit also provided the statistics of the CBA Pledge and Plan signatory organizations.

This summit provided a snapshot of the data collected from the CBA Pledge and Plan Signatories, with a specific focus on the Year Three focus of the Pledge and Plan: Hiring and Pipeline Initiatives. The summit featured consultants from Veritas Culture, who spoke with attendees about the systematic and internal dynamics that negatively impact the ability to recruit, retain, and promote diverse talent. The summit also featured conversations regarding the role of law firms in mentoring diverse attorneys and narratives from diverse legal professionals regarding their experiences of being an underrepresented minority in the legal profession.

This summit provided a snapshot of the data collected from the CBA Pledge and Plan Signatories, which highlights initial statistics on the diversity within the Connecticut legal profession. The summit also covered the importance of pipeline initiatives as well as tools for creating a more inclusive environment to retain diverse talent.