Oracle’s Top Lawyer on the ‘Cascading Effect’ of Diversity

As the general counsel of Oracle, Dorian Daley believes she has an important role to play in increasing gender equality and diversity within the ranks of her outside counsel. But Daley, who oversees a457-member legal department at the computing giant, also believes she can do the same for women in tech.

“There can be this helpful, almost symbiotic relationship between in-house departments and law firms, and I think the legal industry and the tech industry can have the same dynamic,” she told Big Law Business during a recent interview.

Earlier this month, Daley became the first non-founding director on the board of ChIPs, a national non-profit dedicated ...