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Mission Statement
Partners Committee on Diversity
SmithAmundsen Scholarship
Recent Initiatives
Recent Initiatives
Recent initiatives of the Partners Committee on Diversity include the following:
Increased firm profile at law schools through sponsorship and support of the Thurgood Marshall trial team
Partnered with law school placement officials to identify qualified minority candidates
Sponsor of the
Martin Luther King, Jr. Awards Dinner
(2008-2012)
Sponsor of the
Chinese American Bar Association of Chicago
, 2012
Moderator of Issues and Questions Unique to Mexico at the Mexico Judicial Conference at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, 2011
Organizers and panelists at the
2009 Asian American Bar Association’s Law Forum
Sponsor of the University of Wisconsin Law School’s annual Legal Education Opportunities Banquet (2008-2011)
Sponsor of Hispanic Bar Association’s 2012 Annual Convention:
El Futuro Sin Limite/Future Without Limits
Hosted a diversity presentation by
Dr. Arin Reeves of the Athens Group
for firm partners and associates
Hosted breakfast and panel discussion, “
Life as an associate at SmithAmundsen
,” for minority students
Established a SmithAmundsen Scholarship in partnership with the
Illinois Institute of Technology/Chicago-Kent College of Law
to reward excellence in legal writing and the recipient’s contribution to diversity
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