Epiq, a global technology-enabled services leader to the legal industry and corporations, announced it has entered a strategic partnership with JusticeBid, a diversity analytics and e-sourcing platform, to further enhance Epiq’s diversity analytics capabilities within its Legal Transformation Services portfolio of offerings. Epiq will also apply JusticeBid’s capabilities to its own external counsel.
“Epiq is broadening our own commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion by joining the JusticeBid platform, ensuring that we have diversity statistics for our external counsel,” said Alison Wisniewski, Chief Legal Officer.
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Through Epiq’s new strategic partnership, the Epiq Legal Transformation Services group will help clients interpret the diversity metrics from JusticeBid and analyze outside counsel diversity results, set priorities, and monitor and enforce performance through ongoing spend management activities.
“Understanding your outside counsel’s DEI statistics is a foundational step that all corporate law departments should take, and we’re thrilled to work with JusticeBid to make it easy for ourselves and our clients to gain that visibility,” said Peter Eilhauer, Managing Director Epiq Legal Spend Management, adding “We know this is just the first step. We’re excited to work with our clients who prioritize diversity so we can help drive real change within the legal industry.”
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JusticeBid optimizes corporate law departments’ DEI programs by taking on the burden of complex diversity data tracking of outside counsel, thereby saving in-house resources, enabling law departments to skip the data collection and analysis process, and at the same time, significantly reduce the number of firmwide surveys that law firms are asked to complete.
“We are delighted to be working with the Epiq Legal Transformation Services team. This is a great brand to welcome into our mission supporting diversity in our industry and we feel the partnership announced represents real progress for the legal industry,” said Omar Sweiss, Founder & CEO of JusticeBid. “Bringing our data and platform together with Epiq’s strategy expertise puts focus on diversity in our community.”
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