Top 50 Biglaw Firm Offers Associates 50 Billable Hours or Diversity & Inclusion Work
“Biglaw firms across the country are implementing all manner of initiatives to bring attention to the importance of diversity and inclusion among their ranks. We’ve previously acknowledged as firms where approved diversity and inclusion-related work will be billable for attorneys and will count toward,” reports Staci Zaretsky in Above The Law.
“K&L Gates a firm that brought in $1,019,674,000 gross revenue in 2020 recently announced that all attorneys across its global offices would be able to receive up to 50 hours of billable credit for their qualifying internal and external diversity and inclusion work. Here’s an excerpt from the firm’s press release on its new policy.”
