ACC NCR Career Development: Best Practices in Recruiting a Diverse Legal Team

Diversifying your legal team will lead to more innovation, better work product and higher employee engagement. So, how do you attract and hire a more diverse legal team? This program WILL NOT BE RECORDED so be there in person to hear what our speakers have to say.

Join Major, Lindsey & Africa’s Deborah Ben-Canaan and a panel of in-house and talent acquisition leaders who will share practical advice as they explore:

• laying the groundwork and developing relationships,
• retooling job descriptions and position requirements,
• recruitment in new candidate markets, 
• Mansfield Rule and similar efforts,
• working with a recruiter aligned with your goals and values, and more.
  
  Sponsored by Major, Lindsey & Africa and cohosted by our own Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee.
  
  Speakers include:
  
• Jerald S. Howe Jr., Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Leidos Holdings Inc.
• Cherée Haswell Johnson, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary, and Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, W.R. Grace & Co.
• Aisha Jorge Massengill, Vice President, Managing Counsel, Employment & Teammate Relations, Under Armour, Inc. 
• Vanessa Allen Sutherland, Executive Vice President; Chief Legal Officer; Board Director, Norfolk Southern Corporation
  
  Moderator:
  
  Deborah Ben-Canaan, Partner & Senior Practice Leader, In-House Counsel Recruiting at Major, Lindsey & Africa