the way we rise
from every sorrow in life
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Dear Friends,
Happy New Year! Last time we e-met was a year ago in the 2020 January DiverseCity Times. To those who are new – my name is Devanshi Shah and I am the Senior Coordinator of the Office.
Last year was a very difficult year for everyone because our lives turned upside down. For some, it was the loss of loved one(s), loss of employment, or loss of stability. For others, it was reliving trauma or carrying a new burden. Maybe it was all of this and more. For me, professionally, it was ending the year knowing Deborah Martin Owens, my boss turned mentor will no longer be at the City Bar – Never can say goodbye. Fortunately, her leadership has built critical momentum for our programming for diverse students and attorneys, and the legal community at large and I look forward to working with all you to carry it forward.
While the impacts of 2020 have not ceased, let’s look ahead with a glimmer of hope and continue forward with courage and strength. Let’s do our best to keep our loved ones safe and out of harm’s away. Let’s be realistic about our goals and plans for the year ahead, yet aim for the stars.
To begin the year, the Office has been bustling in preparation for its 12th Annual LSAT Prep and Law School Conference scheduled for a half-day on Wednesday, January 13, 2021, 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm and full-day on Thursday, January 14, 2021, 9:00 am – 5:30 pm. This free virtual conference is for all prospective law students and will provide information on everything from the LSAT through the first year of law school. The program includes LSAT prep classes by leading providers, as well as panels with admissions representatives and law students from regional law schools. The conference culminates with a Networking and Admissions Fair. All participants will receive materials on admissions and financial aid. Learn more here! If you are a prospective law student, register here. Know prospective law students? Share this with them. If you are a law school, test prep company, or law school pipeline program seeking to participate, reach out to us here.
The Office is also preparing for its 2021 Associate Leadership Institute (ALI). Nominations for close on Friday, January 29, 2021 at 6:00pm EST. ALI is our signature professional development program for diverse law firm associates, in their 4th to 10th year, who have been identified as future leaders at their firms. Since 2017, 19 ALI alums have been promoted to partner and 12 to counsel. Learn more about our ALI alums in the ALI Spotlight below and here.
Looking ahead, save the date for our Black Heritage Month event, “The Black Bar Association: Then & Now” taking place on February 18, 2021 at 5:00 PM. And further ahead but still top of mind, we are seeking summer employers for our Thurgood Marshall Summer Law Internship Program. If you are interested in hosting a diverse, public NYC high school student for the 2021 summer, please register here. If you have any questions, contact me here.
Until next time, stay well, take care, and don’t be a stranger!
Best wishes,
Devanshi
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Devanshi Shah
Senior Coordinator
Office for Diversity and Inclusion
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The City Bar is pleased to announce its fifth annual Associate Leadership Institute, an ABA award-winning series of high-level development trainings for mid-level and senior associates at our signatory firms, which includes keynote speakers, intensive training modules, and networking opportunities. Learn more here.
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Do you know someone who is interested in learning about law school? Let them know about the LSAT Prep & Law School Conference on January 13-14, 2021! Registration is open now. This free comprehensive conference for all prospective law students provides information on everything from the LSAT through the first year of law school. If you are a law school, test prep company, or law school pipeline program seeking to participate, please contact us today.
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Nominations are open now for the Office for Diversity and Inclusion’s fifth annual Associate Leadership Institute (ALI), the ABA award-winning series of high-level development trainings for mid-level and senior associates at the Office's signatory law firms. The Institute includes intensive training modules, keynote speakers, and networking opportunities. Contact the Office to learn how to apply and see FAQs here.
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The Diversity Pipeline Initiatives Committee and the Office for Diversity and Inclusion are seeking employers for the 2021 Thurgood Marshall Summer Law Internship Program, an intensive internship program that exposes diverse New York City high school students to the legal profession and provides them with professional development training. The 2021 Program will most likely be all-virtual.
If you have any questions, please contact Devanshi Shah, Senior Coordinator. To host an intern(s), please complete this form by Friday, May 7, 2021.
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Law firm and corporate sponsorship packages for 2021 are available now! See the 2021 Sponsorship Guides to learn what each sponsorship level entails, from professional development training to networking opportunities, admission to select events, support for diversity pipeline programming, and more. Should you have any questions, please contact the Office of Diversity & Inclusion. |
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January 6, 2021 | 12:00 pm
January 7, 2021 | 12:00 pm
January 7, 2021 | 12:00 pm
January 8, 2021 | 1:30 pm
January 11, 2021
January 12, 2021| 6:00 pm
January 13, 2021 | 12:00 pm
January 13, 2021 | 5:00 pm
January 13, 2021 | 6:00 pm
2021 Professional Development Workshop Series
January 14, 2021 | 9:00 am
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Diverse Members Wanted!
The Committee on Diversity Pipeline Initiatives works with the NYC Bar's Office of Diversity Pipeline Initiatives to sponsor more than a dozen programs annually to support students at all levels of the pipeline as they pursue a legal career. The Committee is made up of representatives from law firms, corporations, public interest organizations, and academic institutions, and is comprised of three subcommittees: High School Initiatives, Undergraduate Initiatives, and Sponsorship/Partnership. Contact Shanice Naidu, Chair, if you are interested in joining this committee.
Interested in grading law school briefs and brainstorming on topics for next year's Competition? Admitted within the past five years? Consider joining the ranks of the New Lawyer's Moot Court Committee. For more information on how to join, please contact Stephanie Glazer, Moot Court Program Administrator.
The Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Lawyers sponsors the City Bar’s 1L Diversity Fellowship Program. The goal of the Fellowship Program is to offer law students from under-represented populations a unique summer employment opportunity in outstanding New York City law firms and corporate law departments after their first year of law school. The Committee works throughout the year to successfully develop and administer the Fellowship Program. Contact Co-chairs, Muhammad A. Faridi and Michele Cerezo-Natal, if you are interested in joining this committee.
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All events are virtual
January 6, 2021 | 3:00 pm
January 7, 2021 | 12:30 pm
January 8, 2021 | 11:00 am
January 13, 2021 | 6:00 pm
January 14 -15, 2021 | 1:30 pm
January 14, 2021 | 12:00 pm
January 27, 2021 | 12:00 pm
February 10 -11, 2021 | 1:30 pm
March 5, 2021 | 9:30 am
April 14, 2021 (Save the Date)
July 3, 2021 | 8:00 pm
September 17, 2021 | 9:00 am
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April 21 – 22/28-29, 2021
April 22-23, 2021
July 28-30, 2021
November 2, 2021
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- Mid-size Law Firm, Northern, New Jersey
- First-year law students
- Volunteer Position with a State Supreme Court Judge
- Law graduates and admitted attorneys (not currently employed at a law firm)
Applicants must have strong writing skills. Send your resume, for either opportunity, to diversity@nycbar.org.
Internal Counsel, Legal & Compliance
Assistant Counsel
General Counsel
Law Student (for student)
Pro Bono Attorney for Systemic Racial Justice Initiatives
Ella Baker Summer Internship Program (for law students)
General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Vice President of Legal Affairs
Director of Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Environmental Justice Lead
Vice President & Associate General Counsel
Honorable Dora L. Irizarry, U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of NY
Senior Associate, Strategic Sourcing
Business Immigration Analyst (Assistant Paralegal)
Business Immigration Associate
Legal Staff Paralegal
Legal Billing Coordinator
Mid-Level Associate, Real Estate
Legal, Bank Regulatory Attorney, Vice President
Development and Communications Coordinator
Operations Manager
Institutional Advancement Coordinator
Business/Transactions Attorney
Executive Director, City Bar Justice Center
Contractor Consultant Opportunity
Staff Attorney - Planning and Estates Law Project (PELP)
Veterans Assistance Project – Project Director (Attorney)
Assistant Attorney General (multiple positions)
Chief, Antitrust Bureau
Deputy Bureau Chief, Health and Human Services Practice Group
Deputy Bureau Chief, Law Enforcement Practice Group
Senior Counsel, Division of Economic Justice
Real Estate Department Attorney, Cooperatives & Condominiums Team
Affordable Housing Associate, Affordable Housing and Real Estate Practice Group
Graphic Designer
Director, Planned Giving
Employment Lawyer
Attorney Advisor
Senior Officer - Deputy Chief Counsel
Senior Officer - Supervisory General Attorney
Chief of Staff
Legal Policy Fellow
Staff Attorney, Strategic Litigation
Staff Attorney, Post-conviction Litigation
Criminal Defense Practice
Civil Practice
Juvenile Rights Practice
Regulatory Attorney, Assistant General Counsel (Position number: 200022946)
Executive Director
Chief Operating Officer
Deputy Director of Information Systems and Security
Global Children's Rights Program Director, Washington DC
*Additional Openings Available
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The Executive Institute on Inclusion (EII) is a program where corporate America works together with our faculty and channel partners to achieve equity and advance opportunities for all. All across the country, companies that engage with the EII will:
- Make a commitment to achieve fair practices and equity;
- Focus on the power of their own institutions’ policies, practices, pay and pipeline; and
- Work in partnership with the EII to create and implement sustainable plans.
To learn more, view this flyer and contact Tiffany Archer , Faculty Member, Executive Institute on Inclusion.
TestMax is proud to announce their commitment to sponsor 1,000 future lawyers over the course of the next 5 years through our comprehensive Justice In Action program that will help the next generation of lawyers from underrepresented populations as they pursue legal careers.
Nonprofit New York hosts a wide range of trainings from planning and evaluation to financial management to fundraising and resource development to communications and more. All trainings are open to staff or board member of a current Nonprofit New York member organization and non-member organization.
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In 2021, AMTA will host 32 online mock trial Regional tournaments in the month of February. In order to do so, AMTA needs your help! Register to be a judge for the American Mock Trial Association Regional Tournaments to be held online via Zoom in February 2021.
Leg Up Legal discovered a legal mentoring program called Leg Up Legal focused on improving diversity at the earliest levels of the legal talent pipeline. Leg Up Legal's program connects prospective law students to attorney mentors to help them learn more about the legal profession, build their first professional relationships, and find support for their future careers. The program targets prospective law students who are underrepresented minorities, first-generation students, and low-income students. They are currently looking for more volunteer attorney mentors. To learn more about the program and sign-up, please visit www.leguplegal.com/attorneys.
Looking to donate some of your time to create access for Black individuals who want to get into or grow within the startup and/or marketing world? Sign up!
Do you believe in the transformative power of art and community to create change? Are you a committed individual who values centering the voices, cultures, imaginations, knowledge, and leadership of people of color (POC)? If so, we invite you to explore the possibility of LP board service!
Dear Future Colleague (DFC) is a new non-profit that seeks to address educational inequity by providing guidance to underrepresented students applying to graduate school (starting with law school as a pilot program) and competitive scholarships. While the American education system is often referred to as a “meritocracy,” pervasive systemic barriers prevent the application process from being a level playing field. DFC seeks to help change that.
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If you’re a current law school applicant looking for a mentor, please fill out this survey to be matched.
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If you're a current law school students or alumnus that is willing to mentor an underrepresented law school applicant, please fill out this survey.
DFC is also seeking current law students or alumni who were themselves underrepresented applicants that would be willing to share their application experience or law school/career journey in order to help inspire others. Please contact Nancy Fairbank if you are interested in sharing your story, or if you'd like to learn more DFC and how to get involved.
iMentor is seeking mentors to work with students for the 2020-2021 school year. iMentor is a college access and success organization that leverages the power of one-to-one mentor-mentee relationships to help students achieve their college and post-secondary goals. Many students have been affected by the current COVID-19 crisis, with their personal and academic lives severely affected. They need mentors now more than ever to help guide them through these challenging times.
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If you are interested in becoming a mentor, you can start your application here. If you have any questions, you can reach out to Steven Joseph, Manager of Corporate & Community Engagement.
The Belonging Project is seeking volunteer mentors, who will be paired with law students and/or lawyers who sign up requesting a mentor. As a mentor your role is to lean on your experience and knowledge and be available to answer questions, give advice, and talk through with your mentees' obstacles they may be trying to navigate. If you sign up as a mentor we ask that you:
- Place a call to your assigned mentee within a week of the assignment;
- Commit to meeting with your mentee at least once a month (the mentee will drive the relationship and schedule virtual meetings);
- Provide feedback when requested by The Belonging Project administrative team;
- Sign Up Here
Don't let physical distancing equate social distancing. Mentor the youths of today, the professionals of tomorrow. The Virtual Mentoring Portals are safe and monitored mentoring platforms for mentors and mentees to continue their relationships while they may be separated due to COVID-19.
Want to take action for immigrant children at risk? The Safe Passage Project is looking for 250 new pro bono attorneys to represent immigrant children at risk. Prior immigration experience is NOT required. Sign up to learn more.
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The Office for Diversity and Inclusion is a part of the City Bar Fund, the 501(c)(3) arm of the New York City Bar Association. Our EIN is 13-6003018.
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