What You Need to Know

• Gibson Dunn and Arnold & Porter achieved a certification for Black equity this month.
• The firms are the only law firms to participate in the program, which includes major corporations such as Amazon and Nike.
• Achieving certification meant diversifying vendor relationships, increasing Black representation across levels, and partnering with charitable organizations.

In the past week, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer achieved Management Leadership for Tomorrow’s Black Equity at Work Certification, marking the end of year one in a three-year process to make each firm more equitable for Black attorneys and professional staff.

Gibson Dunn and Arnold & Porter are the only law firms involved in the nonprofit’s Black Equity at Work certification program, which asks participants to survey their workplaces to understand the state of Black equity, accelerate the diversity of suppliers, and increase Black representation at all levels, among other areas of improvement participants identify with national nonprofit Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT).

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