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Legal Tech: Legal Tech Is Catching Up to Diversity Efforts. Now They Have to Get Ahead.
Legal tech companies have joined law firms, legal departments other sectors of the industry in promoting diversity and inclusion, and broader racial justice in U.S. society. But for those efforts to be truly impactful long-term, vendors and their clients may have to begin thinking more strategically about both their own internal goals and how they measure progress.
"I think that companies could really do a lot with getting ahead of things where it's not a knee-jerk reaction, and all of the sudden they recognize that there are no diverse people in their company and they have no real diverse clients in their client portfolio," Kevin Nichols, president and CEO of the Social Engineering Project Inc. and a veteran of firms such as Morrison & Foerster and Holland & Knight, said.
To be sure, some legal tech companies have already taken some public steps towards acknowledging the need for racial justice. Contract analysis provider Kira Systems, for instance, donated their technology to Campaign Zero, a police reform platform that is reviewing hundreds of police union agreements in order increase awareness of problematic clauses. Meanwhile, providers such as Litera Corp., Contact Ease and nQueue this year made Juneteenth a company holiday.
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