Sponsorships & Support

Alston & Bird also supports diversity by lending financial support, participating as presenters at events focused on promoting diversity, and being members of minority-related organizations. In 2005-2008, our involvement included:

• Membership in the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity
• Membership in and sponsorship of an ABA Minority Counsel Program
• Participation in the annual meeting of the ABA Commission on Racial & Ethnic Diversity in the Profession
• Membership in the Atlanta Legal Diversity Consortium, where our chief human resources officer presented as a panelist at the Fourth Annual Symposium
• Membership in the American Institute for Managing Diversity
• Membership in the National Association of Women Lawyers. Alston & Bird partner, Lisa Gilford, served as past president of the association.
• Several attorneys hold leadership roles in local chapters of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) and have participated as speakers in programs on the national level.
• Alston & Bird is a Leadership Firm with Practicing Attorneys for Law Students (“PALS”) in New York. PALS is dedicated to enhancing the skills and careers of minority law students and early career attorneys by offering customized mentoring, educational and professional development opportunities. PALS provides resources to augment the law school and employer training of, respectively, minority law students and beginning lawyers, and will continue to offer its services free of charge. For more information about PALS, visit www.palsprogram.org.
• Member of the New York City Bar's Committee on Minorities in the Profession
• Member of the State Bar of Georgia Diversity Program

We also provide support and sponsorship to the following organizations:

National Sponsorships/Memberships:

• AIMD - American Institute for Managing Diversity
• CCWC – Corporate Counsel Women of Color
• HBNA – Hispanic Bar National Association
• HRC - Human Rights Campaign
• Lambda Legal
• MCCA – Minority Corporate Counsel Association
• NAPABA – National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
• NASABA – North American South Asian Bar Association
• NALSWD - National Association of Law Students with Disabilities
• NAWL – National Association of Women Lawyers
• NBA – National Bar Association
• NBACLS - National Bar Association Commercial Law Section
• NLGLA – National Lesbian and Gay Law Association
• NLLSA – National Latina/o Law Student Association
• NALSWD - National Association of Law Students with Disabilities
• MABF - Mexican American Bar Foundation
• MCP - Minority Counsel Program of the ABA

Regional Sponsorships:

• Asian American Heritage Foundation
• Atlanta Legal Diversity Consortium
• Atlanta Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce
• GAPABA - Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association
• Gate City Bar Association
• GAWL - Georgia Association for Women Lawyers
• GIACC - Georgia Indo-American Chamber of Commerce
• Georgia Equality Foundation
• State Bar of Georgia Diversity Program
• Stonewall Bar Association
• New York City Bar Committee on Minorities in the Profession
• PALS - Practicing Attorneys for Law Students (NY)
• Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Diversity Initiative - Legal Diversity Clerkship
• North Carolina Conference for Women
• Texas Asian American Pacific Bar Association
• APABA-DC - Asian Pacific American Bar Association - DC
• APALRC - DC - Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center
• HBA-DC - Hispanic Bar Association - DC
• JLTLA - The African-American Bar Association of Dallas, TX
• ABL - Asian Business League - Sotherine California
• CMCP - California Minority Counsel Program

January 4, 2012	Alston & Bird Earns Diversity Accolades
December 2, 2011	Shiraz Tangri Named Among 2011 Best Lawyers Under 40 by NAPABA
September 13, 2011	Alston & Bird Collects Diversity Accolades
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