ALFDP with the Corporate Counsel Women of Color Present a One-Day Conference For Law Firm Associates

The One-Day Conference for Law Firm Associates will take place on Wednesday, April 25 at the New York Hilton.   Panel presentations on a range of topics including leadership and career development will be given by Partners and Counsel from various firms and organizations.

 More information about the conference and the programming is available here.

NALP and ALFDP Present Diversity and Inclusion Summit

The 7th annual Diversity and Inclusion Summit will take place on June 7-8 in Atlanta. The Diversity Summit will begin at 6:00 pm on June 7 with a reception at Alston & Bird. June 8 will be a day of programming featuring a variety of sessions on topics such as global diversity, religious and cultural diversity, affirmative action, transgender issues, pipeline research, and more. Registration is open at http://www.cvent.com/d/8cq0gy

Save the Date! 3rd National Conference on the Employment of Lawyers with Disabilities

The 3rd National Conference on the Employment of Lawyers with Disabilities is scheduled for Tuesday, May 8, 2012 in Washington, D.C. at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel.

Conference Topics Include:

• The impact of the ADAAA on the Employment of Lawyers with Disabilities
• Inclusion of Lawyers with Disabilities: Federal, Corporate, and Law Firm Best Practices
• Lawyers with Disabilities: Personal Success Strategies

For more information or to register, contact:

http://ambar.org/EmploymentConference

Michael J. Stratton
cdr@americanbar.org
(202) 662-1571
Fax (202) 442-3439

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

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