DLA Piper Hires Diversity & Inclusion Officer From Johns Hopkins

DLA Piper has hired Johns Hopkins University Chief Diversity Officer Fenimore Fisher as its new diversity and inclusion officer to help with the firm’s hiring, retention, and promotion strategies.

The firm’s previous D&I Officer, Genhi Givings Bailey, left in October for Perkins Coie.

“Making diversity and inclusion a top priority of the firm has benefited our clients, our lawyers and staff, and our firm culture as a whole,” Roger Meltzer, DLA Piper’s global co-chairman and co-chairman for the Americas, said in a statement. Fisher “is ideally suited to usher our diversity and inclusion efforts into the next stage ...