Raymond Williams

October 01, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

Often, in my role as national diversity and inclusion partner of DLA Piper, I was asked if DLA uses data and metrics to support our diversity and inclusion goals. The short answer is yes. We use data and metrics because we believe they are important to helping us retain talented lawyers and business professionals.

By Raymond Williams

6 minute read

October 11, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The concept seems like magic—a few strokes of a printer and a ­prescription medication or a ­customized medical device is available at your fingertips. Yet thanks to additive manufacturing, more commonly known as "3D printing," what seems almost unimaginable is indeed reality.

By Raymond Williams 
and Kristina Neff

12 minute read

March 27, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

In the face of these harsh economic times, it is important that we stay focused on diversity and make certain those of us in the legal profession do not lose ground on this front.

By Raymond Williams

5 minute read

March 31, 2008 | Law.com

I read with interest an e-mail sent to me by a friend who is head of litigation at a corporation out West. The e-mail was a reflection on leadership and the impact role models have on the answer to the question we have all asked ourselves at one time or another: "Can I see myself there one day?"

By Raymond Williams

5 minute read

December 12, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

Over the past five years, the Philadelphia Diversity Law Group has written this monthly column. I intended for my column to be a retrospective of the many great columns that have been written and hoped to postulate that the columns were having a positive effect on the diversity landscape. However, as I read through five years of columns, it seemed that there was a recurring theme. We write, we poll, we discuss diversity, but there is no movement forward. So I ask the question: Do you care?

By Raymond Williams

8 minute read