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More firms adding diversity coordinators
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Indianapolis Business Journal
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July 7, 2008
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Brita Horvath celebrated her first year on the job late last month as Baker & Daniels LLP's diversity and pro bono coordinator.
Even in a part-time capacity, paying someone to tackle diversity issues within the workplace would have been unthinkable 30 years ago, recalls Greg Utken, a firm partner who co-chairs its diversity committee.
"When I got out [of law school] in 1974, the firm I was with had no women and no people of color; it was white male," he said. "Diversity was not even a word we would have thought of."
Today, of course, the climate is much different. An increasingly global economy and the changing face of America are just a couple of factors prompting the corporate ...