Hubert L. Allen

[Q: what does Legal Aid Society do to promote DEI in the workplace?] "We've been committed in terms of as we post jobs, as we look for people that we keep looking until we get a slate of people that is diverse, that takes longer to fill every job. But we've made a commitment that we need to see women, we need to see people of color, we need to see people from other countries and so on and so forth as we fill each job internally, as job openings come up, if we're going to do an internal fill. One of the things that we've been focused on, although you can only be successful at this in the margins because people do have to live their own lives, but we try to bring to the US, and send from the US, lawyers who work with us into openings because you had that experience of doing that and that broadens perspective and it broadens our own perspective in terms of lawyers of color that we're hiring."

"We have a one law internship program that we work with mostly Kirkland Sidley and Austin and Baker McKenzie to sort of give a couple of weeks out of the summer to one of their associates to understand what working inside of a corporation is like. And we have a diversity requirement for that. We are partnering with law schools to sort of get the message that working for an in house legal department is a good thing to do, doing out there."