BRIANNA WILLIAMS
upscale New Orleans hotel prior to entering private practice, I knew exactly how to relate to these employees because they used to be my colleagues. Likewise, I frequently listen to live jazz with one of our
clients—and occasionally even sit in with the band. Not long ago, during an informal discussion while listening to the music we both love, this client asked that I prepare a proposal to provide legal services pertinent to a business meeting we had earlier in the day. I readily obliged. While these examples represent only a microcosm of
the myriad of opportunities I’m regularly presented with to integrate my personal formula of diversity with my career as an attorney, I can readily see how leveraging my diversity— that is, being 100 percent me 100 percent of the time—has yielded measurable results. I’m diff erent, yet I celebrate my diversity and have become a witness to the unlimited poten- tial created by being myself. T is new diversity is quickly becoming a best practice—and before long, companies will wonder how they ever did business without requiring their employees to be themselves all of the time. D&B
Brianna Williams is an associate at Stokes Roberts & Wagner ALC. She can be reached at
bwilliams@stokesroberts.com. Follow her on Twitter @creativelawgirl.
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