Foley Mansfield Participates in Mansfield Rule Certification 2024-2025 Cycle
Foley Mansfield is pleased to announce that the firm is reaffirming its commitment to Diversity Lab’s Mansfield Rule Certification for 2024–2025. Despite some of the headwinds emerging in the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) space, Foley Mansfield is committed to continuing our efforts to open the door wider to ensure that all talent at our firm has a transparent, fair, and equal opportunity to be considered for leadership roles, marketing opportunities and other activities. Data shows that firms that remain committed and accountable to the Mansfield Certification process year-over-year are making substantial progress in creating inclusive talent practices and diversifying...
Foley Mansfield Lawyers Whitney Seltzer, Jessica Espinoza, and Laila Rahimi-Keshari Selected for 2024 LCLD Class
Foley Mansfield is delighted to announce our 2024 participants in the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity’s (LCLD) professional development program. Partner Whitney Seltzer has been selected as the firm’s 2024 LCLD Fellow and Associates Jessica Espinoza and Laila Rahimi-Keshari were chosen as our 2024 LCLD Pathfinders. Whitney Seltzer, an experienced defense litigator in the firm’s New York office, will participate in the LCLD Fellows program. The program offers high-potential, mid-career attorneys with professional and personal development opportunities as well as leadership training, relationship-building resources and access to other LCLD Members, including managing partners and general counsel, for mentoring and guidance....
Foley Mansfield Recognized by Leadership Council on Legal Diversity as 2023 Compass Award Winner
Foley Mansfield is pleased to announce that the firm is a recipient of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity’s (LCLD) 2023 Compass Award. This marks the firm’s second year achieving this designation, which recognizes those law firms and corporations demonstrating a strong, continuous commitment to building more diverse organizations and a more inclusive legal profession. LCLD is an organization representing the leaders of the legal profession - more than 400 corporate chief legal officers and law firm managing partners - who have dedicated themselves to creating a truly diverse U.S. legal profession. The organization provides programming designed to attract, inspire,...
Foley Mansfield’s 2023 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Fact Sheet
Please take a look at our 2023 FM Diversity and Inclusion Fact Sheet to learn more about how we are moving the needle forward on our DEI priorities and initiatives.
Foley Mansfield Participates in Mansfield Rule Certification Kick-Off for 2023-2024 Cycle
Foley Mansfield is pleased to announce the firm’s participation in Diversity Lab’s Mansfield Rule for Midsize Firms Certification Kick-Off for the program’s 2023-2024 cycle. After having achieved Mansfield Certification “Plus” status in the 2021-2023 cycle, the firm is thrilled to continue our commitment to advancing diversity and inclusion in hiring, promotions, and formal client pitches. The Mansfield Rule aims to boost the representation of historically underrepresented lawyers in leadership by asking firms to ensure that 30% of their candidate pool for recruitment and advancement is comprised of underrepresented lawyers. Recent studies have confirmed that the Mansfield Rule is working to...
Foley Mansfield Achieves Mansfield Certification “Plus” Status from Diversity Lab
Foley Mansfield is proud to announce that the firm has again achieved Mansfield Certification, receiving the additional “Plus” status for the first time. The Mansfield Certification, facilitated by Diversity Lab, recognizes the structural changes and actions we have taken over 18 months to diversify candidate pools, pitch teams and pipelines to leadership in our firm by broadening the slate of talent considered for internal opportunities and roles. We also increased transparency with written and accessible advancement processes and role descriptions. Our Certification “Plus” status indicates that, in addition to successfully meeting the consideration and transparency requirements, our firm has achieved...
Foley Mansfield Recognized by Leadership Council on Legal Diversity as 2022 Top Performer and Compass Award Winner
Foley Mansfield is pleased to announce that the firm has been named a Top Performer and Compass Award winner by the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD). The designation recognizes those law firms and corporations which have demonstrated a strong commitment to building more diverse organizations and a more inclusive legal profession. LCLD, one of the nation’s leading organizations promoting diversity in the practice of law, consists of more than 430 corporate chief legal officers and law firm managing partners who have dedicated themselves to creating a truly diverse U.S. legal profession. The Top Performer award recognizes those organizations in...
National Hispanic Heritage Spotlight: Angela Sayre
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Unknown Black Heroes
Foley and Mansfield continues to celebrate Black History Month by recognizing unknown black heroes. Often overlooked civil rights heroes, Rustin, Hansberry, and Motley, were trailblazers and took great risks to fight for what they believed in. Through their work, people became aware of or learned about racism, national oppression, and discrimination, they learned more about black and LGBTQ culture, more rights were granted to minority groups and seeds of hope were planted in peoples’ minds. Bayard Rustin Bayard Rustin was an unyielding activist for civil rights, LGBTQ rights, and equality for all. As a key advisor to the...
Firm Selects Partner Anna Kohut as Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) 2022 Fellow and Associate Ye Xu as LCLD 2022 Pathfinder
Congratulations to Foley and Mansfield’s 2022 Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) Fellow Anna Kohut, and Pathfinder Ye Xu. LCLD's programs are committed to building a more open and diverse legal profession. The Fellows program aims to produce a generation of lawyers with strong leadership and relationship skills who are committed to fostering diversity within their individual institutions and the profession. The Pathfinders program aims to provide practical tools for developing and leveraging internal professional networks through relationship-building skills, foundational leadership skills, and understanding of career development strategies.
Foley & Mansfield Re-Launches Mentorship Program
Foley & Mansfield is pleased to announce the re-launch of the FM Mentorship Program. Research has shown that mentoring is one of the keys to improving a mentee’s sense of belonging and moving the mentee onto levels of higher responsibility. We are re-launching this program to enrich the professional and business development experience of our Firm’s attorneys and elevate cross-functional knowledge and skills for attorneys to apply in all FM practice areas. Our mentorship program is open to all attorneys in the Firm and will be managed by the FM Mentorship Committee and Regional Mentorship Directors. Our hope is...
National Hispanic Heritage Month Attorney Spotlight: Eddie Medina
Eddie Medina has been with the firm since 2017. Eddie focuses his practice in the following fields of law: Product Liability, Toxic Tort/Mass Tort, Personal Injury Defense, and Cannabis. As a Partner in the Litigation group of our Miami office, share with us your journey into law and your inspiration for pursuing this career path. My family is what drives me. My parents and grandparents fled Castro’s Cuba in the pursuit of a better life. Their journey was one of struggle, hard work, adaptability, pride, and perseverance. I rest on the shoulders of those who came before me and...
John Myung Discusses Foley & Mansfield’s Summer Clerkship Program in Law360 Pulse Article
Mid-Law Sees Wave of New Diversity Pipeline Programs - LAW360
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