In the article “’Silos Have Broken Down’: Why Collaboration Drives Successful ESG Programs,” Law.com Corporate Counsel recaps Lisa Lukaszewski’s Legalweek 2023 panel discussion “Datafying Your ESG Initiatives & Defining Measurable Success.”

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Companies that want to make an impact through their ESG investments will need to decide which components best apply to their business and work within those frameworks to achieve their goals.

That was the consensus of participants on a panel titled “Datafying Your ESG Initiatives & Defining Measurable Success” at last month’s Legalweek in New York City.  It was moderated by Ariana Tadler, founding partner at Tadler Law, and featured Lisa Lukaszewski, partner at the law firm Redgrave; Kelly Crosier, deputy general counsel and assistant secretary at TreeHouse Foods; and Paul McVoy, senior vice president of litigation services at the e-discovery firm Repario.

Lukaszewski, a partner at Redgrave for two years, said clients are asking how they should measure the various aspects of environmental, social and governance matters that are part of ESG.

“Right now, it’s all over the board,” she said. “How do you measure it? How do you count? What do you count? So it matters to us because it matters to our clients.”

Diversity is especially important to the firm’s clients, Lukaszewski said. Key issues include overall diversity numbers, as well as ownership structures, such as whether a company is veteran-owned or women-owned.

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