On September 13, 2021, Diversity Lab announced that Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has achieved Mansfield Plus Certification after participating in the Mansfield 4.0 program, signifying that at least 30 percent of the firm’s appointments to leadership and governance roles, promotions to equity partner, senior-level lateral hires, and inclusion in formal client pitch opportunities were women attorneys, attorneys of color, LGBTQ+ attorneys, and attorneys with disabilities.

Wilson Sonsini previously achieved Mansfield Plus Certification in 2019 and 2020 after participating in the Mansfield 2.0 pilot program and the Mansfield 3.0 program, respectively. Named after Arabella Mansfield, the first woman admitted to practice law in the United States, the Mansfield Rule was one of the winning ideas from the 2016 Women in Law Hackathon, a pitch competition created by the Diversity Lab in collaboration with Stanford Law School and Bloomberg Law. The first Mansfield Rule pilot program was launched in 2017, and in 2018, more than 65 law firms—including Wilson Sonsini—signed on to participate in the Mansfield 2.0 pilot, which ended in July 2019. The Mansfield 3.0 pilot added attorneys living with disabilities as a tracked category.

Diversity Lab is an incubator for innovative ideas and solutions that boost diversity and inclusion in law. Experimental ideas are created through their Hackathons and piloted in collaboration with more than 150 top law firms and legal departments across the country. Diversity Lab leverages data, behavioral science, design thinking, and technology to further develop and test new ideas and research, measure the results, and share the lessons learned.

For more information, please see Diversity Lab’s press release.