Last year the top lawyer at The Coca-Cola Co. explained his legal department’s approach to diversity.

Bernhard Goepelt, the senior vice president, general counsel and chief legal counsel, was speaking at the company’s Legal Diversity Link event, at which more than 100 in-house and outside attorneys gathered at Coke’s Roberto Goizueta Auditorium in Midtown Atlanta. The event helps connect local corporate law departments with minority- and women-owned law firms.