Law.com International reports that Reed Smith is piloting a mentoring programme for its U.K. associates and business services staff from diverse backgrounds, in a push to enhance retention of its ethnic minority workforce.
According to a firm statement on Wednesday the programme will last for nine months and is being run with mentoring and training consultants Goal 17.
Mentees will work with senior lawyers and staff across Reed Smith’s U.K. offices to develop specialised mentoring plans for their career development, with mentors able to apply the time spent on the scheme towards the firm new billable hour credit for diversity and inclusion efforts.
The scheme will initially be open to 20 mentees with “a view to growing the intake after the first cycle”, a statement said.
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