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5. Black and Female

Appointments

5.1 Candidate attorneys

To establish black male and female directors, a law fi rm essentially
has two choices. Develop your own professionals or look towards
lateral hiring. For large law fi rms, lateral hires are a regular occurrence.
For smaller fi rms, hiring laterally is not always an attractive solution,
The most viable as the personal environment and culture of such a fi rm can make
the introduction of a lateral hire into the family of the fi rm stressful.
option for law fi rms Given the high demand and small supply of senior qualifi ed black
legal professionals, smaller fi rms generally also don’t have the buying
to obtain black power to attract quality lateral hires that would make good directors.

directors is to For many smaller fi rms therefore, the only option to obtain black male
and female directors, is to develop them from candidate attorney
develop them from level upwards. This requires a pool of young black and female
professionals from which the fi rm can develop and grow their future
candidate attorney directors. Metrics relating to the Group’s ability over the last two years
to develop its pool of young black and female professionals are
level upwards accordingly essential to the assessment of whether transformation
momentum is being achieved by the Group.

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