Our Initiatives

Empowering the next generation of lawyers

Bloomberg Law creates a more positive, inclusive, and meaningful future for all lawyers and those they serve.

Challenges in the legal world

As legal professionals, it’s our duty to ensure justice and uphold practices that create a fair and inclusive world. And within our own industry, we can do better. Practitioner demographics are unbalanced, younger attorneys entering the field are underserved, and educational programs are less than optimal. With the right actions, we believe the future is bright and there’s progress on the horizon.

Our approach to drive change

Positive change in the legal community can happen only through involvement from the community itself. That’s why Bloomberg Law facilitates multiple programs that engage professionals from all walks of life to ensure that unique, diverse perspectives inform the work.

Our approach to drive change

Positive change in the legal community can only happen through involvement from the community itself. That’s why Bloomberg Law facilitates multiple programs that engage professionals from all walks of life to ensure that unique, diverse perspectives inform the work.

Take an active role in moving the industry forward

To us, positively impacting the legal industry is the most important work. We don’t take it lightly, and neither should you. Every day, organizations allocate more resources toward innovative programs and mandating diversity, equity, and inclusive policies. If you want to partner with notable clients or lead high-stakes litigation, you must demonstrate a commitment to doing the same.

Through the following programs, you can showcase how you or your organization are working to create positive change in the legal world.

DEI Framework

The Bloomberg Law Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Framework is a listing of law firms that meet or exceed a rising standard for diversity, equity, and inclusion in their firms.

Read about the Framework

Law School Innovation Program

This program acknowledges law school faculty, staff, and administrators who are advancing education through program innovations, experiential learning, and technology implementations that benefit their students, schools, and the legal field at large.

Explore the Program

They've Got Next: The 40 Under 40

This list features 40 lawyers under the age of 40 who have demonstrated a level of excellence in their practice that raises the bar for all legal practitioners — from strong leadership in their workplaces and communities to notable diversity and inclusion efforts.

See the List

Pro Bono Innovators

We highlight a selection of legal leaders who embody an innovative approach and servant-minded philosophy in their pro bono work for the underserved. That can include creatively circumnavigating barriers for their clients, developing unique solutions to tackle complex legal matters, or leveraging analytics to identify and solve problems that others couldn’t.

Meet the Innovators

Seeing the difference

Through data-backed surveys, rigorous research, and participation from the broader legal community, those nominated and selected have seen the positive impact of these programs firsthand.

“A DEI program in a law firm is essential. It helps us attract top talent. It’s important to our clients, it allows us to create an inclusive culture, and it helps us ensure that we are advancing a diverse slate of candidates so that the legal profession becomes more diverse. Being included in the Bloomberg Law DEI Framework is really important to us. We seek recognition externally that our diversity efforts are at least at our peer level, if not higher than our peers. And this recognition did that.”

Sharon Jones
Partner & Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer
Haynes Boone

“Those pushing on the fringes of legal education are at the forefront of influencing one of our most important professions – our future generation of lawyers. As one of the judges for Bloomberg Law’s inaugural Law School Innovation Program, I was delighted to see the creative, engaging methods law schools are using. These legal educators are breaking through the status quo with fortitude and measurable outcomes. Kudos to them and to Bloomberg Law for encouraging and fostering this change in our law schools.”

Kim Craig
Co-founder
Bold Duck Studio

“Making the top ten list of most innovative law school programs is just totally validating. It’s not the easiest thing to enter higher education as an outsider doing something that the status quo might misunderstand, underestimate, or even undermine. But I count myself fortunate to have a creative and courageous dean… and great faculty that have allowed me space and time to create the Legal Business Design Hub at the University of Richmond School of Law.”

Josh Kubicki
Director & Professor, Legal Business Design Hub & Entrepreneurship Program
University of Richmond School of Law

Why Bloomberg Law?

Bloomberg Law is an innovative legal information provider changing the market with new products and a different subscription model. As such, we’re uniquely positioned as a change agent to influence the practice of law and how attorneys are trained to practice.