Show your commitment to advancing the role of women in the legal profession and in society. Become a NAWL Sponsor.
To become a sponsor, please contact the NAWL office at 312.988.6186 or nawl@nawl.org for more information.
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Sponsor $5,000 |
Gold $10,000 |
Premier $15,000 |
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| Registration at all NAWL Programs at Member Rates |
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| Subscriptions to the Women Lawyers Journal (WLJ) and The Directory of Women Lawyers |
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| Complimentary individual memberships, and listing in the Directory of Women Lawyers and Women-Owned Law Firms for those complimentary members. Reduced price of $55 for each additional individual membership |
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| Networking, public service, diversity and leadership opportunities for programs such as regional Networking Events and the General Counsel Institute |
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| Featured recognition on the NAWL website, including a focus piece on the firm's women's initiative or other firm features, and a link to your firm's website. (NAWL's website receives thousands of page hits monthly) |
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| Adertisement in all 2009 Women Lawyers Journal (WLJ) Issues (The Journal is distributed to over 2,000 individuals and organizations, nationally and internationally, including Europe, Australia and Japan) |
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| Focus piece and interview in the bi-monthly NAWL e-Newsletter, which is distributed electronically to 2,500 subscribers |
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| A NAWL Annual Awards Luncheon Table, featured recognition at the event, and discount rates for advertising in the Program Booklet |
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| Recognition and an advertisement in the National Directory of Women Lawyers and Women-Owned Law Firms(The Directory is sent to all of NAWL's members and to the AMLAW 500) |
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| Complimentary posting on NAWL's Career Center |
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| Ability to send materials and signage for display at NAWL programs (returned only if pre-paid air bill is provided) | 16" x 20" sign | 20" x 24" sign | 24" x 28" sign |
* Except when members of the judiciary are program speakers and there is a conflict of interest.
Premier Sponsors
DLA Piper LLP (US)
DLA Piper became one of the largest legal service providers in the world in 2005 through a merger of unprecedented scope in the legal sector. While large in scale, the merger strategy was simple – to create an international legal practice capable of taking care of the most important legal needs of clients wherever they do business. We wanted our clients to rely on receiving the right service for their particular matter, whether requiring seamless coordination across multiple jurisdictions or delivery in a single location.
Building strong and substantial client relationships was and remains the compass for DLA Piper's business strategy and future development. With Frank Burch as Chairman of our Global Board, DLA Piper today has 3,500 lawyers in more than 65 offices in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States. We represent more clients in a broader range of geographies and practice disciplines than virtually any other law firm in the world. Our client commitment is also our brand – everything matters when it comes to the way we serve and interact with our clients. If it matters to them, it matters to us.
At DLA Piper, we promote a culture that is inclusive of all, where everyone has the opportunity to grow their career and where pathways to such advancement are transparent. We believe that fostering diversity and inclusion allows us to acquire the best talent, build the most effective teams for our clients and deliver the highest level of service. It is part of how we live our values. When it matters to our people, our clients and our communities, it matters to us.
DLA Piper’s women’s affinity group, Leadership Alliance for Women (LAW) works to advance our global competitive edge by developing and promoting women lawyers and maximizing their opportunities for business development and leadership. Guided by a national steering committee in coordination with office delegates, LAW fosters networking, facilitates the flow of information and provides support for women lawyers to better navigate the challenges presented by a large law firm practice. Partners Heidi Levine and Stefanie Fogel are co-chairs of the LAW steering committee.
Jones Day
Jones Day is an international law firm with 32 locations in the most important centers of business and finance throughout the world. With more than 2,400 lawyers, including more than 400 in Europe and 200 in Asia, it ranks among the world’s leading law firms. Jones Day acts as principal outside counsel to, or provides significant legal representation for, more than half of the Fortune Global 500 companies. Jones Day. One Firm Worldwide.
MetLife
Gold Sponsors
Alston & Bird LLP
With 900 attorneys, Alston & Bird is a leading national AmLaw 100 firm. The firm’s core practice areas are intellectual property, complex litigation, corporate and tax, with national industry focuses in energy and sustainability, health care, financial services and public policy. The firm has built a reputation as one of the country’s best employers, appearing on FORTUNE magazine’s ranking of the “100 Best Companies to Work For” 10 years in a row.
The Alston & Bird Women’s Initiative is comprised of women from each of the eight offices and is chaired by a senior partner. The program serves as a catalyst for continued discussion in a variety of areas and provides internal and external opportunities for the women in the firm to meet, share experiences and build their careers. Alston & Bird is a sponsor of the National Association of Women Lawyers, and is proud of our partner Lisa Gilford, President of the Association.
Andrews Kurth LLP
For more than a century, Andrews Kurth LLP, an international law firm with 400 lawyers, has built its multidisciplinary practice on the belief that "straight talk is good business."
Real answers, clear vision and mutual respect permeate the firm’s success stories with clients, colleagues, communities and employees. Andrews Kurth embraces diversity and inclusion as a business imperative and an ethical responsibility. We strive to be a leader in the legal profession by building a high-performance team of diverse individuals to create a positive experience for our clients and our firm community.
With offices in Austin, Beijing, Dallas, Houston, London, New York, The Woodlands and Washington, DC, Andrews Kurth represents an impressive list of global clients spanning multiple industries and areas of law.
Crowell & Moring LLP
Crowell & Moring LLP is an international law firm with more than 500 lawyers representing clients in litigation and arbitration, regulatory, and transactional matters. The firm is internationally recognized for its representation of Fortune 500 companies in high-stakes litigation, as well as its ongoing commitment to pro bono service and diversity. The firm has offices in Washington, DC, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Orange County, Anchorage, London, and Brussels.
To develop new, and enhance existing, women’s initiatives, the Firm has a well-established Women Attorneys’ Network (WAN), led by a Steering Committee drawn from attorneys across the firm. WAN holds monthly lunches, and regularly schedules substantive programs ranging from gender communications workshops to client development seminars to webinars focusing on work/life balance issues. Crowell & Moring is a Founding Firm member of the Project for Attorney Retention, and a proud supporter of NAWL. In 2010,
Crowell & Moring was named the recipient of the MCCA’s Thomas L. Sager Award, bestowed to one firm in each of the MCCA’s five regions that has demonstrated sustained commitment to improving the hiring, retention and promotion of women and minority attorneys and to creating a more inclusive legal profession and working environment.
For more information about Crowell & Moring generally, and about the Firm’s diversity and women’s initiatives, please visit Crowell & Moring online at http://www.crowell.com.
Dickstein Shapiro LLP, founded in 1953, is a multiservice law firm with more than 400 attorneys in
Dickstein Shapiro is widely regarded for its commitment to advancing women’s issues in the legal marketplace. In 2009, Dickstein Shapiro topped the Project for Attorney Retention survey with 67 % of its new partner promotions going to women in the Firm. The Managing Partners of the New York and Los Angeles offices, the Deputy General Counsel, two members of the Executive Committee, and four of its five C-level officers are women. For the past 18 years, the Firm has been an avid supporter of NAWL, and its attorneys have served in various leadership positions. Dickstein Shapiro partner Katherine Henry is a former NAWL President, and partner DeAnna Allen currently serves on the NAWL executive board. Working together with NAWL and other like-minded organizations, Dickstein Shapiro continues to improve the professional lives of women attorneys by encouraging their development and retention.
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP is dedicated to excellence in all that we do and the highest level of service to our clients. We value highly character, professionalism and ethics.
Our rich 160-year practice history is marked by service to the public and to the bar, with an extraordinary tradition in leadership of legal ethics. Our prominence today combines a comprehensive range of traditional legal practices with significant national roles in such practices as class action defense, corporate and securities, government relations, health law, intellectual property, insurance, investment management, private equity, bankruptcy, environmental, education and communications. We remain committed to our long tradition of handling pro bono work and taking on unpopular causes.
We serve clients internationally, nationally and regionally from offices in the downtown business centers of Philadelphia, Washington, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Chicago, in Albany and Milwaukee, near the exurban campuses of today’s industry leaders in Florham Park and Princeton, N.J., and Berwyn, Pa., and in the business and bankruptcy law center of Wilmington, Del.
As part of Drinker Biddle & Reath's commitment to diversity, we have established a Women's Initiative to further the retention and promotion of female lawyers. In keeping with that focus, the Women’s Initiative works with the firm to support and assist female lawyers in (i) becoming partners; (ii) becoming fully participating partners; (iii) becoming principal billing partners on client matters; (iv) being recognized and compensated for their contribution to client billings and (v) being leaders in the firm in greater numbers and more meaningful ways.
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Kaye Scholer LLP
Kilpatrick Stockton LLP
Kilpatrick Stockton LLP is a full-service international law firm with more than 500 attorneys in ten offices across the globe: Atlanta and Augusta, GA.; Charlotte, Raleigh and Winston-Salem, NC.; New York, NY; Washington, D.C.; Dubai; London; and Stockholm. Kilpatrick Stockton's delivery of innovative business solutions provides results-oriented counsel for corporations, from the challenging demands of financial transactions and securities to the disciplines of intellectual property management. Collaboration among Kilpatrick Stockton’s corporate, litigation and intellectual property attorneys provides knowledgeable and proactive guidance for companies at every stage of the business life cycle. Kilpatrick Stockton was recently recognized as the North American Law Firm of the Year for IP as well as for Excellence in Trademark Practice/Litigation in North America at the recent 2008 World Leaders International IP Awards program in London. For more information, please visit www.kilpatrickstockton.com.
McCarter & English, LLP
Merck
Ogletree Deakins
Ogletree Deakins is one of the largest labor and employment law firms in the United States. The firm has over 430 labor and employment lawyers located in 34 offices throughout the United States. The firm is dedicated to partnering with its in-house legal and human resources colleagues to deliver timely client-centered counsel and business solutions to legal problems. Although the size and scope of our practice has grown over the past 30 years, our core values remain constant. The firm is committed to personalized attention, innovative solutions and old-fashioned hard work.
Serving as advocates for management, we have a national reputation for legal excellence and responsive client service. Understanding the twenty-first century workplace demands of rigorous compliance with a wide array of state and federal employment laws and regulations, Ogletree Deakins is both well-equipped and committed to providing superior counsel and authoritative legal solutions to our clients’ needs. Our dedication to understanding our clients’ business allows us to serve them effectively and efficiently.
White & Case LLP
White & Case LLP is a leading global law firm with 36 offices in 25 countries. Among the first US-based law firms to establish a truly global presence, we provide counsel and representation in virtually every area of law that affects cross-border business. Our clients value both the breadth of our global network and depth of our US, English and local law capabilities in each of our regions and rely on us for their complex cross-border transactions, arbitration and litigation provided by our global practices.
Sponsors
Adorno & Yoss
Adorno & Yoss and its affiliates is an international law firm providing a full range of interdisciplinary services to its clients throughout the
Allstate
Baker & McKenzie LLP
For more than half a century, we have looked to the strategy and needs of our clients for our inspiration and challenge. Before many people recognized that we lived in a global economy, we were building a distinctive global law firm to serve its needs. Our Firm has more than great physical reach. It is an enterprise of outstanding capabilities, keen intellects, unyielding integrity and an extraordinary desire to understand and serve clients – serve them well. The scope of our legal practice is broad. The experience, knowledge and resources of our Firm, and the values we share, give us all we need to fulfill our commitments to our clients, our people, our communities and ourselves.
Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
Carlton Fields
For more than a century, Carlton Fields has been recognized as one of the most trusted, skilled, and effective law firms in the
Located in major business centers in
Carlton Fields’ client list has included nearly two-thirds of the Fortune 100 companies and most of the law firms on the Am Law 100 have referred clients to us. The firm handles high-stakes class action and mass tort litigation; significant mergers, acquisitions, and securities offerings; a full range of intellectual property counseling, registration, and litigation; environmental, land use, and real property representation; governmental consulting; commercial financing representation; construction advice, mediation, and litigation; and other legal counseling and business dispute resolution services.
Our Women’s Initiative Network (WIN) provides a forum for communication among women attorneys. WIN advocates for a workplace that supports the firm’s women attorneys through formal written programs and policies consistently applied to all attorneys. WIN promotes the attraction, retention, and career advancement of female attorneys through educational and networking events.
Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin
Cooper & Dunham LLP
Duane Morris
Duane Morris LLP, a full-service law firm of more than 650 attorneys, offers innovative solutions across diverse industries in the United States and internationally to address the legal and business challenges of today's evolving global markets.
The Duane Morris Women's Initiative, led by partners Sharon Caffrey and Sandra Jeskie, was designed by and for Duane Morris women attorneys. The Initiative formally brings together women attorneys throughout the firm to exchange ideas, foster and expand business contacts and opportunities, and enhance attorney development. The Initiative develops and sponsors programs on various topics, including e-discovery, protecting trade secrets and international transactions, as well as panel discussions on legal trends geared toward female in-house counsel. For the past two years, the Initiative has sponsored a multi-city clothing drive for Dress for Success, collecting and donating professional clothing and accessories to help women in low-income communities. In addition, the Initiative holds internal networking lunches and activities for Duane Morris women attorneys, including a Women's Initiative Retreat for all women attorneys that focuses on educational programming as well as networking.
Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge
At Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, we have set a goal to continue to increase the diversity of our workforce by actively hiring, developing, retaining and advancing the best lawyers and staff from a wide range of backgrounds. We strive to create value by providing superior legal advice and business counsel to protect and advance the interests of our clients. To do so, we know that we need to reflect the diversity of the clients and communities we serve. We believe that we succeed only when our clients succeed and our culture of respect and professional excellence are key factors in how we respond to our clients' needs. For more information, please visit www.eapdlaw.com.
Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Founded in 1973, Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. (EpsteinBeckerGreen) is a national law firm with global reach that takes a "boutique approach" to five complementary areas of practice: Business Law, Health Care and Life Sciences, Labor and Employment, Litigation, and Real Estate. EpsteinBeckerGreen's commitment to these practices reflects its founders' belief in focused proficiency paired with seasoned experience. Each practice is comprised of teams of experienced attorneys with the flexibility to take on cases of all sizes, and the mandate to deliver truly professional service.
The Firm has approximately 350 lawyers practicing in 11 offices throughout the U.S. – Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Newark, San Francisco, Stamford, and Washington, DC. - and is a founding member of the International Lawyers Network (ILN), an association of over 90 select law firms with more than 5,000 lawyers worldwide. The ILN provides EBG easy access to high-quality legal services in 64 countries on six continents, which enables the Firm to effectively serve our clients wherever their businesses take them.
The mission of the EpsteinBeckerGreen Women's Initiative is to enhance the careers of professional women by providing opportunities both inside and outside the office to network, share information, acquire skills, and develop rewarding professional relationships. Nearly half of EBG attorneys are women, and women owners play an active role in the management of the Firm. EpsteinBeckerGreen recognizes the importance of women to business and professional communities. Through a variety of sponsorships and programs, the Firm strives to advance the careers of women. For example, EpsteinBeckerGreen is a founding sponsor of the Women Business Leaders of the U.S. Health Care Industry Foundation, an organization whose goal is to help senior executive women in the health care industry improve their businesses and continue to growing professionally. To encourage women to share their views on, and experiences with, business development, networking, mentoring, and work/life balance issues, we created the Executive Women's Networking Blog.
General Mills
One of the world's leading food companies, General Mills operates in more than 100 countries and markets more than 100 consumer brands, including Cheerios, Häagen-Dazs, Nature Valley, Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Green Giant, Old El Paso, Progresso, Cascadian Farm, Muir Glen and more. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, General Mills had fiscal 2009 global net sales of US$15.9 billion, including the company's $1.2 billion proportionate share of joint venture net sales.
Hellerman Baretz Communications
Hellerman Baretz Communications (HBC) designs and executes strategic communications campaigns for the world's leading law firms, consulting firms, and financial services companies. From the Supreme Court to Wall Street, trading floors to boardrooms, our clients are the dealmakers, big thinkers, and trendsetters. Their work involves the most significant issues, transactions, and developments in business today.
Our goal at HBC is to become true partners with our clients. We are dedicated to delivering on promises, earning client trust, and forging lasting relationships. Most importantly, we understand the difference between working with consumer-oriented clients, which sell products and our professional services clients, which are selling something intangible -- their expertise. No matter what some might argue, the same tactics and strategies used to promote consumer products are not appropriate to promote professionals (people are not bars of soap or bottles of soda). We understand this difference and it is what makes our service and strategy more realistic and more valuable.
With offices in New York City and Washington D.C., HBC specializes in strategic communications. When we say "strategic" we mean that we never engage in scatter-shot PR. Our approach is always tightly grounded in reaching the media and audiences that most influence our clients' target markets.
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is a national law firm with more than 460 lawyers in 24 offices. We offer a full-service practice, with an emphasis in litigation, business law and corporate transactions, environmental, intellectual property, labor and employment law, professional liability defense, estate planning and taxation matters. Our attorneys provide services to a range of for-profit and not-for-profit clients in industries that include alarm and security services, construction, financial services, health care, hospitality, insurance, legal, manufacturing, real estate, retail and transportation. Our clients also include government agencies, municipalities and schools.
Hinshaw was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in Chicago. We have offices in 12 states: Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Wisconsin.
Hodgson Russ LLP
As the first AMLaw 250 firm to be led by a woman in the position of chair, Hodgson Russ has a longstanding commitment to diversity that is embraced at all levels of our firm. This commitment is reflected in our devotion of time and resources to our diversity initiatives, and it is continually championed by the work of our Committee for Attorney Recruitment, Development, and Diversity (CARDD). Our firm is proud to support diversity-focused organizations such as the National Association of Women Lawyers and host events and meetings that foster dialogue, planning, and action regarding women and minorities in the legal profession.
Cathy Fleming, a former president of NAWL and a member of its executive board, recently joined Hodgson Russ as a partner in the Business Litigation Practice Group in our New York City office. She is also a founding director of the NAWL Foundation and serves on its board. In connection with her work for NAWL, Ms. Fleming counsels corporations and law firms on implementing and enriching diversity initiatives.
Hodgson Russ’s approximately 200 attorneys provide business-focused U.S. legal counsel to clients in the United States, Canada, and across the world. We practice in virtually every substantive area of law and generally use multidisciplinary work teams to serve the diverse and often complex needs of our clients, which include public and private businesses of all sizes as well as governmental entities, nonprofit institutions, and individuals.
With roots tracing back to 1817, Hodgson Russ is one of the nation’s oldest law firms. The firm has offices in New York City, Albany, Buffalo, and Johnstown, New York; Palm Beach, Florida; and Toronto, Ontario.
Jackson Lewis LLP
Founded in 1958, Jackson Lewis is dedicated to representing management exclusively in workplace law with almost 650 attorneys practicing in 46 cities nationwide. The firm’s business model is unique in that, since our founding in 1958, we have focused solely on labor and employment law. This concentration has allowed us to offer solutions to clients faster and more efficiently while keeping our rates well below those of general practice firms. Our mission is to offer clients preventative strategies and positive solutions for the workplace.
The success we have achieved on behalf of our clients has been recognized by numerous awards and honors. Many of our attorneys have achieved Best Lawyer and Super Lawyer designations, as well as inclusion in the Top 100 Labor Attorneys in America by the Labor Relations Institute. Our Firm has received first-tier ratings from Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500 and is regularly listed as a “Go To” Law Firm in many business publications. The Association of Corporate Counsel, the world’s largest association of in-house counsel, selected Jackson Lewis as counsel for their 1,500 member national Employment and Labor Law Committee. In addition, several Jackson Lewis partners hold leadership positions with the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).
Jackson Lewis is committed to promoting an inclusive culture where diversity is valued by everyone. Our Diversity Committee develops programs and explores strategies to attract and retain a quality and diverse professional staff. Many of our clients have recognized our firm for our utilization of women and minority attorneys. Among our Diversity Committee Resource Groups, our Women’s Business and Leadership Resource Group chaired by Susan M. Corcoran of our White Plains office is committed to involving Jackson Lewis attorneys in opportunities for business and leadership development by and for women. Our firm has been a leader in this area, demonstrated most notably by its annual employment law conferences for women in-house counsel and human resource executives. For more information on Jackson Lewis, go to www.jacksonlewis.com.
Johnston Barton Proctor and Rose LLP
Our story began in 1926. In the nearly 85 years that have followed, Johnston Barton Proctor and Rose LLP has evolved, thriving with our community and clients to become the hallmark firm we are today. We continue to draw on the qualities that have fueled the firm’s earliest successes: our singled-minded commitment to excellence, an entrepreneurial spirit and our creative yet practical approach to achieving superior results for our clients.
Today, with over 50 lawyers, the areas of legal services performed by Johnston Barton include all of the areas typically associated with full-service, national law firms. The firm is particularly recognized within the State of Alabama and Southeast region for its extensive practice in business and tax-related matters, litigation, health care, and labor and employment law. Our clients range from major public corporations to closely held businesses and individuals.
Although Johnston Barton works on both a national and international scale, our lawyers remain committed to the local area. Throughout the firm’s long history, Johnston Barton has maintained a strong commitment to the Birmingham community, legal and otherwise. The firm's attorneys are leaders of the local and state bar associations (three have served as President of the Birmingham Bar Association) and are active participants in local charitable and community organizations, churches, and public institutions and agencies.
Additionally, Johnston Barton Proctor & Rose LLP is a member of Meritas®, an international association of independent full-service commercial and corporate litigation law firms with 5,000 attorneys in 200 business law firms worldwide. Through our association with experienced Meritas® firms, Johnston Barton can provide immediate access to advice and assistance for our clients virtually anywhere in the world.
JPMorgan Chase
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Kirkland & Ellis LLP is a 1,500-attorney law firm representing global clients in complex litigation, dispute resolution and arbitration, corporate and tax, restructuring, and intellectual property and technology matters. The Firm has offices in Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Shanghai and Washington, D.C.
Kirkland’s Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI) takes the lead in developing formal training, mentoring, and networking opportunities for women attorneys to ensure their personal and professional success at the Firm. Our family and work/life policies and programs remain among the most generous and progressive in the industry and our Alternative Work Schedules allow our attorneys to accommodate personal circumstance or life changes that call for flexibility.
All of the above is overseen by our Gender Subcommittee which constantly examines the issues, policies, and practices that directly impact women attorneys at the Firm to ensure that we remain current, competitive, and capable of providing a positive and enriching work environment.
Kirkland’s commitment in this area was recently recognized when Kirkland was named one of Yale Law Women's 2008 Top 10 Family Friendly Firms. Working Mother magazine and Flex-Time Lawyers LLC also named Kirkland one of the 50 Best Law Firms for Women in 2007, an honor which recognizes and celebrates American law firms who are committed to supporting the development and advancement of women in the legal profession.
K & L Gates LLP
Latham & Watkins LLP
At Latham & Watkins, our commitment to equal opportunity and diversity enables us to draw from a remarkable wealth of talent in creating a law firm of the highest quality.
Founded in 1934, Latham & Watkins has grown into a full-service international powerhouse with more than 2,100 attorneys in more than 25 offices around the world. Our founders instilled an ethic of hard work, commitment and quality that flourishes today and has nurtured our dramatic growth into one of the world's premier business law firms.
Through Latham WEB (Women Enriching Business), our firm's global women's initiative, members of our Task Force and Office Advisory Group help address the business challenges and opportunities unique to women lawyers and to existing and prospective women clients. The group concentrates on issues and opportunities particularly relevant to women, addressing the changing face of influence by creating broader networks and productive business development relationships.
Many Latham & Watkins offices host events geared toward women in business through our Leadership Luncheon" series and sponsorships such as the Fortune 100 Most Powerful Women Conference, The New York Women's Foundation, National Association of Women Lawyers and Working Mother Media, among others. Our women lawyers are also involved in many leadership positions within firm management, as well as in outside organizations.
Latham & Watkins is also proud to sponsor several other diversity-related initiatives, many of which are led by our Diversity Committee and the Diversity Hiring Sub-Committee of our Global Recruiting Committee. For example, the Latham & Watkins Diversity Scholars Program was designed to increase the number of diverse law students seeking to pursue careers in global law firms, and our annual Diversity Weekend invites law students, Latham attorneys and firm leaders to join together for substantive discussions and social events. Our training and mentoring programs support the career development of all our attorneys, and we are active participants in professional activities and organizations committed to enhancing diversity and equal opportunity in the legal profession and business community.
LexisNexis
LexisNexis® is a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions designed specifically for professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting, and academic markets. LexisNexis originally pioneered online information with its Lexis® and Nexis® services. A member of Reed Elsevier, LexisNexis serves customers in more than 100 countries with more than 18,000 employees worldwide.
LexisNexis believes that the Rule of Law is the critical component of protecting and advancing human rights around the globe. To further the Rule of Law, we are committed to being the world’s authoritative voice in legal and risk-management issues that are the foundation for stable governments and the well-being of individuals. Our work to advance the Rule of Law and to stop the many human rights atrocities that exist in its absence, has led us to become increasingly concerned about the issue of human trafficking globally. We have applied our resources—people, solutions, expertise and direct financial aid—to combat human trafficking. Our focus has been on building awareness in the industries we serve, building legal capacity for pro bono work and serving the needs of victims.
We are committed to promoting a diverse workforce and strive to create a work environment that respects individuals and their contributions, and fosters innovation. We have a Diversity and Inclusion Working Group with representatives from across the company who explore diversity communications, training and recruitment. And we have a growing number of affinity groups, such as LexisNexis Women Connected, to advance community, helping drive diversity initiatives and mentoring. LexisNexis Women Connected works with leading women’s organizations to advance gender equality in the legal profession as well as to partner on philanthropic projects across the U.S.
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
McDermott Will & Emery
M Group Communications Training
Nixon Peabody LLP
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Proskauer Rose LLP
Prudential
Schoeman Updike & Kaufman, LLP
Sidley Austin LLP
Starnes Davis Florie LLP
Steptoe & Johnson LLP
With more than 500 attorneys, Steptoe & Johnson LLP provides counsel and representation in a wide range of legal fields. Steptoe attorneys are known for having the breadth of experience and insight needed to handle complex disputes and resolve difficult regulatory and business problems. Attorneys in practices ranging from tax, energy, and intellectual property, to antitrust, international trade, and insurance/reinsurance, know the business and regulatory landscapes exceedingly well and benefit from deep benches of practice-specific trial lawyers. The firm believes such in-depth understanding is an essential factor in developing the creative strategies and solutions which clients require.
In 60 years of practice, the firm has gained an international reputation for vigorous representation of clients before governmental agencies, successful advocacy in litigation and arbitration, and creative and practical advice in guiding business transactions. While Steptoe enjoys the recognition it has earned for leading regulatory, litigation, and business solutions practices, what sets the firm apart from other law firms is the accessibility, responsiveness, and cohesion of highly skilled individuals who come together to resolve complex matters for their clients.
Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP
Townsend is one of the largest law firms in the United States specializing in the protection of intellectual property rights. With nearly 200 attorneys and offices in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Walnut Creek, San Diego, Denver, Seattle, Washington, DC and Tokyo, Japan, Townsend offers specialized services in all aspects of intellectual property law. Townsend’s skilled patent and trademark prosecutors and preeminent litigators assist clients in a diverse range of technologies. With the depth of experience Townsend attorneys enjoy, the firm is uniquely positioned to provide the highest quality intellectual property legal services to our clients. As a full service intellectual property firm, IP is not just one of a number of practice groups – it is the sole focus of our practice. Our systems for managing large IP portfolios are established, tested and consistently recognized as being in the forefront for firms of our size and focus. Our practice is divided into four primary areas:
Patent Prosecution and Counseling
Trademark & Copyright Prosecution Counseling and Enforcement
IP Litigation
Technology Transactions and Licensing
Townsend’s strength resides in our ability to provide a full range of integrated IP advice to encompass a client’s entire IP portfolio. For example, our patent and trademark lawyers work seamlessly with lawyers from our litigation group in the context of litigation – and litigation matters are almost always staffed with at least one non-litigator who can provide insight as to the business and technical aspects of any proposed litigation strategy.
Townsend is a proud sponsor of the National Association of Women Lawyers and many other leading organizations throughout the country that seek to improve diversity in the legal profession. We have consistently been recognized by the Minority Law Journal as one of the most diverse law firms in the U.S. Under the direction of Maureen Sheehy, Townsend's first woman chairperson, the firm's commitment to diversity includes active support for women and minorities in leadership roles at the highest levels.
For more information about Townsend, please visit us online at www.townsend.com.
Troutman Sanders LLP
Troutman Sanders LLP is an international law firm with more than 750 lawyers and 15 offices in North America, Europe and Asia. Founded in 1897, the firm’s heritage of extensive experience, exceptional responsiveness and an unwavering commitment to service has garnered strong, long-standing relationships with clients across the globe. These clients range from multinational corporations to individual entrepreneurs, federal and state agencies to foreign governments, and non-profit organizations to businesses representing virtually every sector and industry.
Troutman Sanders lawyers provide counsel and advice in practically every aspect of civil and commercial law related to the firm’s core practice areas: Corporate, Finance, Litigation, Public Law and Real Estate. With more than 50 practice groups focused on specific aspects of these areas, the firm is defined by its considerable knowledge base and proactive approach to addressing legal and business challenges.
