Corporate Diversity Counseling

About this practice

In 2009, Weldon Latham founded the Corporate Diversity Counseling group. Since then, attorneys in our groundbreaking group have helped employers with lawful diversity programs, performance and profile, with a focus on achieving key organizational objectives and mitigating potential legal risk. Bringing to bear years of experience as a standalone practice, we advise all employers on lawful diversity initiatives.

Because we focus solely on workplace issues throughout the country, we advise clients on every aspect of the employer-employee relationship and leverage the valuable insight we gain into potential employment risks and the preventive practices and strategies to provide creative policies, practices and strategies to enhance equal employment opportunity.

Strategic program planning, development, and advice and counsel

We advise clients on developing and tailoring mechanisms to help achieve the organization’s equal employment opportunity objectives.

The Group provides advice and counsel to organizations in various industries and sizes, on topics including but not limited to their:

DEI program development and analysis
Recruiting programs, initiatives and tools
Voluntary affirmative action plans
Employee development, mentoring and sponsorship programs
Mission statements, policies and related communications
Employee Resource Groups
Data collection, preservation and self-identification practices
Supplier diversity and other company spending initiatives
Assessment and Data Analytics
Training and Leadership Development
Crisis prevention, mitigation and management
Pay Equity analyses
Workplace investigations
Litigation defense

Workplace training and development

Workplace Training has long been a cornerstone of our preventive strategy and our programs are customized to each client’s specific needs, audiences, and goals with an eye toward providing practical solutions, tangible takeaways and continuous improvement. All our programs are tailored by audience, delivered to groups ranging from one to thousands of participants via in-person and via remote training platforms and of varying durations.

Strategic DEI communications

Our attorneys assist clients with respect to both internal and external communications. We help leaders develop and deliver appropriate messages to the workforce regarding the business imperative and the expectations on each employee and supervisor. We also assist clients to deliver appropriate external messaging.

Scalable climate assessments

We design and conduct cultural climate assessments are designed to assist in helping organizations understand employee needs and engagement. Our climate assessments utilize a number of tools individually or in tandem – interviews, focus groups, written surveys, data analysis – to take the temperature of an organization or department and determine the root cause of underlying issues. With each climate assessment, we partner with our clients to dig deep into the organization’s culture, drawing on our experience in employment law and litigation in combination with the soft skills and emotional quotient of a talented and diverse team of attorneys. The process is tailored to each organization’s unique needs, and the results include a detailed plan that can be utilized to address immediate concerns as well as the prevention of systemic issues.

Litigation

The Jackson Lewis national team of litigators and trial lawyers all understand that preparing a sound defense for single, multi-claimant and systemic actions involves a core understanding of your business, your goals and tolerance for risk.

Working side by side to develop and implement your DEI strategy and programs gives you the advantage whenever an initiative or policy is challenged in any forum.