Indianapolis Business Journal

Brita Horvath celebrated her first year on the job late last month as Baker & Daniels LLP’s diversity and pro bono coordinator.

Even in a part-time capacity, paying someone to tackle diversity issues within the workplace would have been unthinkable 30 years ago, recalls Greg Utken, a firm partner who co-chairs its diversity committee.

“When I got out [of law school] in 1974, the firm I was with had no women and no people of color; it was white male,” he said. “Diversity was not even a word we would have thought of.”

Today, of course, the climate is much different. An increasingly global economy and the changing face of America are just a couple of factors prompting the corporate community, and particularly law firms, to hire diversity directors.
 
READ MORE: http://www.ibj.com/html/detail_page.asp?content=16781

---