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About Debevoise & Plimpton

www.debevoise.com

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is a premier law firm with market-leading practices, a global perspective and strong New York roots. Our clients look to us to bring a distinctively high degree of quality, intensity and creativity to resolve legal challenges effectively and cost efficiently.

Deep partner commitment, industry experience and a strategic approach enable us to bring clear commercial judgment to every matter. We draw on the strength of our culture and structure to deliver the best of our firm to every client through true collaboration.

Approximately 800 lawyers work in nine offices across three continents, within integrated global practices, serving clients around the world. Our lawyers prioritize developing a deep understanding of the business of our clients. We then pursue each matter with both intensity and creativity to achieve optimal results.

We are committed to serving our clients through excellence in lawyering. We receive numerous accolades and awards recognizing this commitment and the firm’s market prominence worldwide.

Debevoise is also recognized as one of the leading firms for diversity. We believe that a diverse workforce, where all of our colleagues feel respected, builds a stronger firm, and benefits clients and the wider community.

The firm’s culture fosters a collaborative approach across disciplines and regions, and, as a result, clients benefit from the dedication, cohesiveness and superior quality that we bring to all of our work worldwide.

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About Crowell

www.crowell.com

Crowell & Moring LLP is an international law firm with offices in the United States, Europe, MENA, and Asia. Drawing on significant government, business, industry and legal experience, the firm helps clients capitalize on opportunities and provides creative solutions to complex litigation and arbitration, regulatory and policy, and corporate and transactional issues. The firm is consistently recognized for its commitment to pro bono service and its programs and initiatives to advance diversity, equity and inclusion.

Why did you decide to become a NBA-CLS sponsor?

Crowell has supported Firm lawyers’ attendance at NBA-CLS for a number of years, and we have seen firsthand the value of NBA’s creating space and opportunities for diverse talent to grow and thrive. Additionally, Crowell lawyers are active members of and participants in NBA, including leading and serving as panelists for previous NBA-CLS conferences. We are proud to continue supporting the mission and strategy that NBA-CLS advances, providing valuable networking, visibility, career development, and relationship-building opportunities for Black lawyers.

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At Crowell & Moring, we value and respect differences, knowing that diversity of culture and thought makes us a stronger firm. Under the leadership of our Chief Talent & Inclusion officer – overseeing our Recruitment, Professional Development, and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion functions of the firm – we have incorporated a talent development approach into the firm’s strategy of identifying and providing meaningful opportunities for all of our attorneys. We have advanced these goals through efforts such as our participation in the Mansfield Rule (of which we are 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0 certified); our establishment of the Crowell Rule, which supplements our Mansfield Rule efforts by requiring that every lateral associate, counsel and partner candidate position has an interview pool of 30% racial/ethnic and LGBTQ+ diversity and at least a 50% interview pool composed of women and lawyers from diverse backgrounds; our Diversity Pledge to double the number of lawyers from diverse backgrounds at each level, increasing the percentage of women and diverse lawyers in leadership positions, and adding 150 women and diverse lawyers to the firm within five years; and our ongoing engagement and business development support of our Asian Pacific Islander, Black, Hispanic & Latinx, Middle Eastern & North African, and LGBTQ+ lawyers. Our efforts have been recognized by Seramount’s (formerly Working Mother’s) Best Law Firms for Women for 11 consecutive years, LCLD’s Top Performer and/or Compass Awards for 6 consecutive years, and HRC’s Corporate Equality Index 100% score for 11 consecutive years, to name a few. More information can be found on our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion website.

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About Perkins Coie

www.perkinscoie.com

Perkins Coie is a leading international law firm that is known for providing high value, strategic solutions and extraordinary client service on matters vital to our clients’ success. With more than 1,200 lawyers in offices across the United States and Asia, Perkins Coie provides a full array of corporate, commercial litigation, intellectual property, and regulatory legal advice to a broad range of clients, including many of the world’s most innovative companies and industry leaders as well as public and not-for-profit organizations.

Perkins Coie is frequently recognized for its leadership in the legal profession including being named among the “100 Best Companies to Work For” for 20 consecutive years by Fortune and achieving the #1 U.S. employer ranking among the 2021 “Best Workplaces in Consulting & Professional Services” by Great Place to Work®. Perkins Coie received the Mansfield 4.0 Certification Plus for Diversity Leadership from Diversity Lab (2021), was ranked one of the “Best Workplaces for Diversity™” by Great Place to Work® and Fortune, and earned a top rating of 100 percent in the Corporate Equality Index by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation for the 14th year in a row.

Why did you decide to become a NBA-CLS sponsor?

Perkins Coie proudly supports the tireless efforts of the National Bar Association in establishing a space for Black attorneys to gather, connect, and support each other in the legal profession. It is an organization that shares in our own commitment to expanding the pipeline of African Americans entering the legal profession as well. Diversity is a long-standing core value at Perkins Coie and we share the same acknowledgment of NBA-CLS that no corporation or institution could achieve true success without it.

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Perkins Coie is leading the way towards inclusion through programs like the Black Boardroom Initiative which hopes to nearly triple the ratio of Black executives on the boards of major public companies by 2028. Backed by some of Washington’s biggest firms, including Amazon, Microsoft and Starbucks, the initiative seeks to build and maintain a pipeline between executive participants and public companies to help address a critical diversity, equity, and corporate governance challenge. It is the latest response to call for more balanced leadership at a time of escalating concerns about social justice and racial equity.

Perkins Coie introduced a new policy providing partnership-track associates and counsel up to 50 hours of billable-equivalent credit for time spent actively participating in diversity and inclusion-related work. Eligible work includes helping organize significant internal and external D&I related events, participating in D&I related speaking engagements, mentoring diverse lawyers or law school students, leading office D&I committees or national resource groups, and participating in the recruitment of diverse lawyers.

The Perkins Coie Diverse Attorneys’ Hotline is a resource through which diverse associates and counsel can provide feedback, voice concerns, and elevate any challenges they experience as barriers to their career advancement. It provides attorneys with a safe place to go if they do not feel comfortable talking about their concerns with their supervising attorney or practice group leader.

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About Alston & Bird

www.alston.com

The NBA-CLS provides an outstanding platform for networking and relationship building for in-house and outside counsel interested in promoting diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.  The talent that is showcased in the NBA-CLS is world-class, and we support the annual conference to celebrate and promote that talent.

Why did you decide to become a NBA-CLS sponsor?

The NBA-CLS provides an outstanding platform for networking and relationship building for in-house and outside counsel interested in promoting diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.  The talent that is showcased in the NBA-CLS is world-class, and we support the annual conference to celebrate and promote that talent.  

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Alston & Bird has been a leader in law firm diversity and inclusion for many years, paving the way with ground-breaking initiatives and programs.  It is not by chance that Alston & Bird has built a reputation as one of the country’s best employers, appearing on Fortune magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” for twenty-six consecutive years.  We have received national awards and recognition for our diversity and inclusion, including scoring 100% on the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index for 20 consecutive years.

Alston & Bird has gone beyond a one size fits all blueprint when it comes to inclusion. We understand that creating and maintaining an inclusive environment where everyone feels that they can succeed, that they belong, and that they matter is critical to attracting and retaining top talent.  We accomplish this goal with initiatives that include embedding Practice Group Diversity Partners in each of the firm’s practice groups to work to ensure everyone has equal access to meaningful work, client teams, and mentoring. The firm also provides up to 50 hours of billable credit toward associate bonus thresholds for diversity & inclusion leadership activities. Our Firmwide Diversity & Inclusion Committee, led by our full-time Diversity & Inclusion Partner, is dedicated to enabling meaningful, long-term changes that ensure the firm is second to none in attracting, developing, nourishing, and retaining top talent at the firm.

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