THOMSON REUTERS — Recognizing the need to field more diverse legal teams, midsize law firms are aspiring to promote inclusion and increase more diversity among its ranks. As part of that, the Thomson Reuters Institute produced a three-part Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) roundtable series to provide a confidential space to learn how the most successful law firms are innovating in the D&I space. Increasing commitment to diversity through recruiting, specifically by introducing a greater pool of diverse candidates and ensuring that bias is removed in all recruiting systems, is the first area of innovation. Other key factors in ensuring diverse candidate recruiting include: