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Presenting and educating attorneys regarding diversity issues consistently, through formal diversity training, reports at monthly member meetings and firm retreats
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Establishing informal affinity groups that gather our attorneys together on a firm-wide basis at least twice a year to facilitate support and provide communication on how the firm’s diversity initiatives can be improved
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Facilitating mentoring and advocacy to ensure that minorities and women attorneys not only work on substantive matters for important clients, but also receive responsibility and origination credit where appropriate
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Retaining diversity consultant Hattie Hill Enterprises, Inc., to perform a third-party needs assessment and guiding us in implementing specific strategies for diversity success, including firm-wide training programs
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Recruiting at additional schools, and at numerous regional and local minority recruiting events across the country. Specifically, the firm attends the Cook County Minority Job Fair in Chicago, the South East minority job fair in Atlanta, and the Tristate minority job fair in Cincinnati
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Establishing an endowment for an annual scholarship at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. The annual income will be used to fund a scholarship for an outstanding first-year student entering the College of Law who, by virtue of their background and accomplishments, will contribute to the intellectual and social diversity of the entering class and has an interest in studying alternative dispute resolution. Special consideration will be given to African-American students and others, who because of their social and educational backgrounds and life experiences, have the potential to bring new perspectives to the study of law and the legal profession
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Involvement in the Columbus Bar Association’s Summer Leadership Intern Program, Cincinnati’s Summer Work Experience in Law and Louisville Bar Association’s summer internship programs that place high school students in our Cincinnati, Columbus and Louisville offices during the summer
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As a founding member of the Greater Cincinnati Minority Counsel—working with the GCMCP to form the Greater Louisville Minority Counsel Program and the Bluegrass Minority Counsel Program for the Louisville and Lexington metro areas
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Sponsoring high profile women’s programs, including sponsorships of the following: Go Red for Women (Louisville), Dress for Success Annual Luncheon (Louisville), Women 4 Women (Louisville), Girl Scout Leaders for Tomorrow (Columbus), Cincinnati Business Courier’s bizwomen.com program and the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber’s WE Speak luncheon series
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Active in national conferences, such as Women in Law Firms and Hildebrandt Institute's Forum on Leadership in Law Firms—Developing Women Leaders in the Legal Profession, so that we can be leaders throughout our region and beyond
- Supporting the Minority Corporate Counsel Association and its initiatives. Specifically, FBT has scheduled two corporate members of the MCCA to speak to all of our attorneys in January 2008