Online Registration for Charting Your Own Course Diversity Conference Now Available

Online registration for the industry leading diversity conference Charting Your Own Course is now available.  Please click here to access the site and obtain more information about the conference scheduled in Philadelphia on March 9 - 12, 2012.

ALFDP WELCOMES ITS NEW OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS!

At the Fall 2011 Conference, the following ALFDP members were elected to the ALFDP board:

Maja D. Hazell - President
Peter Wilson, Jr. - Vice President
Christiani Franck - Treasurer
Kenneth Imo - Member at Large
Lisa A. Linsky - Member at Large

ALFDP would like to thank the following outgoing officer:

Michelle Wimes - Member at Large

The current ALFDP board is composed of the following members and officers:

Maja D. Hazell - Interim President
Sylvia F. James - Interim Treasurer and President Emeritus
Genhi Bailey - Secretary
Theresa Cropper - Historian
Keith Earley - Member at Large

Fall 2011 ALFDP Newsletter

ALFDP has recently published its Fall 2011 Newsletter!  Click here to view the full report.  

2011 ALFDP Fall Conference (September 27, 2011)

The 2011 ALFDP Fall Conference: Diversity & Inclusion 5G is scheduled for September 27, 2011 at the New York office of White & Case LLP, 1155 Avenue of the Americas. 

If you are planning to attend this year’s conference, please complete the pre-registration form by clicking on the following link:  http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ZBWBQNM

Please contact Tanya Johnson (TanyaJohnson@perkinscoie.com) or Zakiyyah Salim-Williams (zswilliams@gibsondunn.com), your conference co-chairs, with any questions.

Conference Agenda:

8:30 am - 9:00 am - Conference Registration and Breakfast

9:00 am - 9:15 am - Greetings and Welcome

9:15 am - 10:15 am - Panel: Creating Targeted Initiatives for Diverse Attorneys

10:15 am- 10:30 am - Break

10:30 am - 11:15 am - Breakout Session, two (2) concurrent workshops:

                                    (1) Measuring Results of Diversity Initiatives

                                    (2) Engaging Decision Makers and Practice Group Leaders

11:15 am - 11:30 am - Break

11:30 am - 12:15 pm - Breakout Session, three (3) concurrent workshops:

                                    (1) Fighting Diversity Fatigue (for diversity professionals 3+ years)

                                    (2) Preventing Diversity Fatigue (for newer diversity professionals)

                                    (3) Unconscious Bias

12:15 pm - 1:45 pm - Networking & Lunch

1:45 pm - 2:30 pm      Diversity Communications: Creating and Revamping Print, Digital and Social-Media to appeal to all Generations

2:30 pm - 2:45 pm - Break

2:45 pm - 3:45 pm - Annual Business & Closing from the President

ALFDP WELCOMES ITS NEW OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS!

At the Fall 2010 Conference, the following ALFDP members were elected to the ALFDP board:

George Braxton - President
Sylvia James - President Emeritus
Genhi Bailey - Secretary
Keith Earley - Member at Large

ALFDP would like to thank the following outgoing officers:

Sylvia James - President
Anna Brown - President Emeritus
Kisha Nunez- Secretary

The current ALFDP board is composed of the following members and officers:

Maja Hazell - President
Denise Robinson - Treasurer
Sylvia James - President Emeritus
Genhi Bailey - Secretary
Theresa Cropper - Historian
Keith Earley - Member at Large
Michelle Wimes - Member at Large

Number of Women Lawyers Hits 5-Year Low at NLJ 250 Firms

On November, 16, 2010, the National Law Journal reported that the percentage of women partners and associates working at NLJ 250 law firms this year fell to its lowest point since 2006.

Women associates and partners accounted for 29.2 percent of all attorneys at NLJ 250 firms. Five years ago, women made up 32 percent of attorneys at those firms.  The findings are from The National Law Journal’s annual ranking of the nation’s largest law firms.

To access the full article, please select the following link: Number of Women Lawyers Hits 5-Year Low at NLJ 250 Firms

Recession blamed for ‘historic’ decline in law firm diversity

On November 4, 2010, the National Law Journal reported on the The National Association for Law Placement’s (NALP) latest diversity statistics, concluding that the percentage of both minority attorneys and women attorneys declined slightly at firms during 2010.  NALP’s findings mirror similar conclusions released in recent months by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA),Vault and National Law Journal affiliate The American Lawyer.  All three surveys found small pockets of improvement, either at individual firms or among subsets of the attorney population, but the larger conclusions were that diversity suffered. It was the first time in the 17 years that NALP has collected demographic data that diversity actually declined.

Please select the following link to access the full article: Recession blamed for ‘historic’ decline in law firm diversity

Recession Tough on Women Lawyers

On November 9, 2010, the Careerist published an articled discussing the The National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL) survey that tracked women at the 200 largest firms.

The article reports:

First, the familiar bad news: NAWL finds that women constitute only 15 percent of equity partners (it’s been the same rate for the last five years) and are barely represented in the most influential committees at their law firms. What’s more, nearly half of the firms say that there’s not a single woman among their top ten rainmakers.

Now, the new bad news: Contrary to those optimists who say that the recession has had a positive effect on work/life balance issues, women did not fare well during the recession. In a nutshell, the changes in the profession and the economic downturn have not been kind to lawyers in general and women in particular. (The National Law Journal also reports that the number of women and minority lawyers declined during this past year, according to NALP.)

To access the full article, please select the following link: Recession Tough on Women Lawyers

ALFDP Dinner at NALP Summit

June 10, 2010

6:00 pm

 

On June 10th, ALFDP will host a dinner for all members attending the Summit (this year, ALFDP will assume the cost for the dinner).  In addition, ALFDP will sponsor a short networking reception at the conclusion of the conference on June 11th. 

NALP/ALFDP Summit

June 11, 2010

Registration Open for 2010 Diversity Summit
Plan now to be in Chicago for the fifth annual Diversity Summit on June 11.  The chief purpose of this exciting conference is to provide a forum for a robust exchange of information about the current challenges and innovations surrounding the issue of diversity in the legal employment arena.  Co-sponsored by NALP ALFDP, this event will bring together NALP and ALFDP members, law firm partners, in-house lawyers, law school deans, industry consultants, and other legal career professionals who have an interest in continuing to expand the diversity of the practice of law. 

 The 2010 Diversity Summit will:

 Focus on the diversity pipeline and highlight programs that have successful track records.

• Identify proven ways to increase the recruitment, promotion, and retention of diverse lawyers.
• Examine how the movement to competency-based systems for compensation and advancement is likely to affect law firms’ diversity initiatives.
• Provide diversity professionals and others involved in law school and law firm diversity initiatives an opportunity to connect with one another and share best practices.
• Provide continuing legal education credits.

 For more information and to register:  www.nalp.org/2010diversitysummit.

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