Ep 141: Digitory Legal Founder Catherine Krow on Using Billing Data to Drive Diversity

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week, the College of Law Practice Management named</span> <a href= "https://www.digitorylegal.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Digitory Legal</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">winner of its</span> <a href= "https://www.collegeoflpm.org/2021-awards-announced"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">2021 Innovation Award</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">for a</span> <a href= "https://www.legalbusinessworld.com/post/turning-outside-counsel-guidelines-into-a-data-analytics-diversity-cost-savings-platform"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">unique partnership</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">with Kaiser Foundation Health Plan to drive diversity, equity and inclusion among its outside counsel by applying analytics to billing data to get a deeper understanding of the type and quality of work firms are assigning to diverse lawyers. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As our guest</span> <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-krow/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Catherine Krow</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, Digitory Legal’s founder and CEO, explains, the company’s primary mission is to bring predictability and transparency to legal billing and pricing. But the company also has a strong commitment to driving DEI in the legal industry. It has been using its analytics to help firms gain insights into whether diverse lawyers are getting the same career-advancing opportunities as the non-diverse lawyers, and to then apply those insights through what Krow calls “</span><a href= "https://www.digitorylegal.com/blog/2021/9/22/aligning-data-analytics-dei-priorities-and-distribution-of-work-to-drive-change-in-the-legal-industry-6a5lb"><span style="font-weight: 400;">mindful staffing</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Krow left a partnership at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, one of the world’s largest law firms, to start Digitory Legal, and has never looked back. In addition