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Nutter Achieves Mansfield Certification Plus for 2023–24
Print PDFNutter is pleased to announce that the firm has achieved Mansfield Certification Plus for 2023–24. This is the fifth consecutive year that Nutter has earned Mansfield Certification and the first time the firm has achieved Mansfield Certification Plus status. The Plus designation requires firms to voluntarily provide data showing progress and outcomes of efforts to broaden talent pools and increase the visibility of advancement processes.
Diversity Lab’s Mansfield is a year-long structured certification process that is designed to ensure that all qualified individuals at participating law firms have a transparent, fair, and equal opportunity to be considered for advancement into leadership. Mansfield Certification requires law firms to consider broad slates of qualified individuals for firm leadership roles, with those slates including at least 30% historically underrepresented lawyers, including women lawyers, underrepresented racial and ethnic lawyers, LGBTQ+ lawyers, and lawyers with disabilities.
In continuing its commitment to advancing equity, diversity and inclusion in the legal profession, Nutter announced its participation in the 2024-25 Mansfield Certification process earlier this year.
Nutter’s equity and diversity efforts are led by its Co-Managing Partners, Liam O’Connell and Michael Scott, its Executive Committee, and the Firm’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Committee, which is co-chaired by Partners Ian Roffman and Johanna Wise Sullivan, and comprised of members of the Firm’s Executive Committee, partners from all practice areas, and other Firm leaders. The EDI Committee establishes firm-wide strategy related to equity, diversity, and inclusion and directs the work of subcommittees that design and implement initiatives that promote an inclusive Firm culture. Members of these subcommittees include partners, associates, and staff.
The Mansfield Rule originated in the 2016 Women in Law Hackathon, which was hosted by Diversity Lab in collaboration with Bloomberg Law and Stanford Law School. Named in honor of Arabella Mansfield, the first woman admitted to the practice of law in the United States, the initiative aims to increase diversity in leadership ranks within the legal profession.
About Nutter
Nutter is a Boston-based law firm that provides legal counsel to industry-leading companies, entrepreneurs, institutions, foundations, and families, across the country and around the world. The firm’s corporate, intellectual property, litigation, real estate and land use, labor and employment, tax, and trusts and estates practices are national in scope. The firm was co-founded in 1879 by former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, before his appointment to the Court. For more information, please visit www.nutter.com and follow the firm on LinkedIn.
