“I haven’t seen anything like this,” says Gary Sasso, vice-chairman of talent development for the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity.

This was his reaction to HP General Counsel, Kim Rivera’s plan to withhold up to 10% of invoiced fees for firms that fail to meet HP’s diversity standards.

This takes it to a new level, and with the Law Council of Australia’s new national program to tackle ‘boys’ club’ bias in legal profession, we might finally start to move the needle on law firm diversity at the leadership level.

Here’s a great tip sheet for all the work-from-home warriors out there (or those aspiring to be), from the founder of freelanship, Lauren err… Holiday.

Before you get the wrong impression:

For anyone in-house at a hyper-growth company or for those looking to join a startup as lawyer #1, here’s a wrap of the main issues you’ll face (and how to deal with them) from four lawyers steering the course at Stripe, Lending Club, Thumbtack and Silicon Valley Bank.

On figuring out top priorities, managing counsel at Thumbtack, Steve Siger adds:

Most slide decks are boring.

This one isn’t.

Here’s VillageMD’s General Counsel, Wendy Rubas giving her authentic, story-board account how she built out a metric-driven legal department from scratch.

Delivered at this year’s Forum on Legal Evolution, you can check out her slides here.

This is the first time I’ve seen this – a free style guide for your in-house legal department.

And there’s probably no better arbiter of style than the folks at Adobe.

According to their legal team:

I’m a big fan of inbox zero. And like many lawyers, I’m OCD when it come to filing emails.

But there’s always a cheeky handful of messages that stubbornly squat in my inbox, refusing to be tucked away into a file or archive – things like important tasks, follow-ups, invoices to pay, flight itineraries etc.

Until now.

Here’s a super neat tool to clear out your inbox, set reminders and follow-ups, starting from $0, nothing to install 😍

For anyone running trade promotions, prize draws or games of chance, go and bookmark this site.

Simply select your topic e.g. “prize draws”; select your countries and get detailed, up to date guidance backed by the might of DLA Piper.

Cost: $0.00

Hat tip to the AU counsel of a global startup for surfacing this one.

As part of their Women in the Workplace research, McKinsey & Co. conducted a deep dive on women in law firms in North America.

The inaugural study drew on survey responses by more than 2,500 lawyers and information from 23 of the nation’s top law firms.

The results are far from impressive.

Download the full report here.