Eisenstein Quoted on How Women are Changing the Firms They Lead
Managing Partner Marci Eisenstein was quoted on how she works to challenge potential exclusionary factors like implicit bias that can undercut diverse attorneys’ opportunities to build large books of business.
For example, Marci personally reviews the composition of all pitch teams, which gives her an opening to push opportunities to diverse attorneys at higher levels.
“I want to make sure that if there is someone there who has the bona fides, that person is going to be on the team,” she said.
She added that her goal is to give attorneys who have the skills to address a client’s needs a chance to do so, because the premise of placing female and minority attorneys on a team to check off a diversity mark is the wrong way to look at it.
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