Donna Scaffidi. As a former Legal Recruiter at Ropes & Gray, Donna has helped to decide the fate of thousands of candidates. She has seen what people are doing right and where they can improve. Inspired to help people better navigate the law school admissions and BigLaw application processes, she created D&D Consulting Group - providing preeminent one-on-one consulting and industry expertise to those who are ready to thrive.

As first-generation everything (first in this country, to graduate college, and beyond), she has overcome unique obstacles that people with a similar background face.

Donna is a budding, trilingual, transactional attorney passionate about creating and supporting sustainable, diverse talent pipelines. As a queer, gender-nonconforming Latinx person growing up in a single-parent, low-income household, Donna learned the value of grit and the importance of helping others. After graduating college, she worked at a top, international BigLaw firm as a legal recruiter, where she helped to recruit the firm’s next generation. Donna focused on recruiting summer associates and entry-level associates (3Ls and judicial clerks), and co-created and managed the firm’s first-ever Diversity & Inclusion and Recruitment Task Force. In this role, Donna advocated for increased diversity and created and supported diverse talent pipelines, including strategizing the recruitment and selection process for the first diversity scholarship as well as advocating for pipeline partnerships.

Prior to starting law school at the University of Michigan, Donna was part of the 7.4% of diverse, entering law students selected to be an SEO Law Fellow. Then, while in law school, she secured a 1L position at the global law firm, White & Case LLP in NY, NY where she also spent part of her 2L summer. Successfully navigating the OCI process, Donna was awarded the Weil, Gotshal & Manges 2L Diversity Fellowship, where she spent the other half of her 2L summer. Throughout her tenure, Donna has served as a student attorney in the Entrepreneurship Clinic, a VC Intern with Harlem Capital, a Venture Capital Legal Associate in the Ross Social Venture Fund, a Venture Fellow with Score 3 Angels Network and a consultant for a U.K.-based FinTech startup. Upon graduation, Donna will be joining White & Case LLP in Silicon Valley, CA.