CCIE is a 501(3)(c) nonprofit organization so all contributions are tax-deductible. Please consider adding CCIE to your list of favorite charities as you plan your charitable giving this year. |
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| Thank you to our 2010 Contributors
CCIE Ascent Sponsors
Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado
Walmart Stores, Inc.
CCIE Ridgeline Sponsors
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP
Qwest Communications
Holland & Hart LLP
Patton Boggs LLP
Holme Roberts & Owen LLP
CCIE Diversity Supporters
--Arnold & Porter LLP
--Association of Corporate Counsel - Colorado Chapter
--Baker Hostetler LLP
--Ballard Spahr LLP
--Colorado Asian Pacific American Bar Association
-- Colorado Attorney General's Office
--Colorado GLBT Bar Association
--Colorado Hispanic Bar Association
--Colorado Indian Bar Association
--Colorado Pledge to Diversity Legal Group
-- Colorado Sam Cary Bar Association
--Colorado Women's Bar Foundation
--Consultiium LLC
--Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP
--Denver City Attorney's Office
--Dorsey & Whitney LLP
--Faegre & Benson LLP
--Ford & Harrison LLP
--GHPHorwath PC
--Gordon & Rees LLP
--Greenberg Traurig LLP
-- Harris Law Firm
--Heizer Paul LLP
--Hensley Kim & Holzer LLC
--Hogan & Hartson LLP
--Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP
--Isaacson Rosenbaum PC
--Janus Capital Management LLC
--Kamlet Reichert LLP
--Kutak Rock LLP
--Law Week Colorado
--Lindquist & Vennum PLLP
--Littler Mendelson PC
--McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP
--McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
--Morrison & Foerster LLP
-- Ogletree Deakins PC
--Perkins Coie LLP
--Reilly Pozner LLP
--Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons LLP
--Ryley Carlock & Applewhite LLP
--Sherman & Howard LLC
--Snell & Wilmer LLP
--University of Colorado Law School
--University of Denver Sturm College of Law
--Wells Anderson & Race LLC
--Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell LLP
--White and Steele PC
--Xcel Energy Inc. |
| Legal Organizations Piloting the CCIE Inclusiveness Manual |
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Brownstein Hyatt Farber & Schreck LLP
Colorado Attorney General's Office
Denver City Attorney's Office
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Holland & Hart LLP
Holme Roberts & Owen LLP
Kamlet Reichert LLP
Qwest Communications
White and Steele, PC
Xcel Energy |
| Upcoming Events |
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DILP Meeting
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
4:00 at the Colorado Bar Association Offices (9th Floor), 19th and Grant
Pipeline Working Group Meeting
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
4:30 p.m. at the Colorado Bar Association Offices (9th Floor), 19th and Grant
Pledge Large Group Meeting
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
12:00 p.m. at Reilly Pozner
511 Sixteenth Street, Ste 700
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Inclusiveness 101: Learn about the New Movement for Diversity Efforts
Join CCIE at Faegre & Benson LLP on Thursday, May 13, 2010 from 8:00 to 9:30 a.m. for Inclusiveness 101. CCIE Executive Director Kathleen Nalty and CCIE Board Member Patricia Powell (Hummons Consulting) will present a free CLE program introducing the topic of inclusiveness and how it differs from traditional diversity efforts. To view the program flyer, click here. 1 Ethics CLE credit is anticipated and breakfast will be provided. Space is limited, so register today by sending an RSVP to Meg Satrom. |
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Seeking Employers to Hire Denver High School Students for Summer Work
CCIE Joins Forces with the City of Denver
The City of Denver is seeking employers in the Denver legal community to hire Denver high school students this summer through Bridges to Work, a work-based paid internship program sponsored by the Youth Workforce Division of Denver's Office of Economic Development and championed by Mayor John Hickenlooper and Hassan Salem, President of U.S. Bank.
You can sponsor an intern either by hiring a student for your organization, or by making a donation to support a youth through training within another legal work environment (i.e. the public, or non-profit sector). For more details, click here. Contact Ginger Hecht with the City of Denver with questions.
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APABA's 20th Anniversary Celebration: April 8th
The Asian Pacific Bar Association will celebrate its 20th Anniversary on Thursday, April 8th, 2010 at the Seawell Grand Ballroom, at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Visit their website for more information, as well as registration details. For additional information, e-mail Mechelle Faulk.
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2010 Diversity Summit
The 2010 Diversity Summit was the largest and most successful to date. Thank you to all of the sponsors who helped make the event possible. Please save the date for next year's conference -- Tuesday, March 15th. To view a photo album of the event, click here.
Miguel Rivera, Associate General Counsel of Walmart Stores, who attended the conference, remarked afterwards that the work CCIE and the Denver legal community are doing is "potentially game changing" for the legal profession and he urged legal organizations to "make use of CCIE's new manual to move the needle on diversity and  inclusiveness."
To learn more about inclusiveness and CCIE's innovative inlcusiveness manual and program, please visit CCIE's new website: www.legalinclusiveness.org.
(l to r) Miguel Rivera, Walmart; Brande Stellings, Catalyst; Hon. Craig Shaffer, U.S. District Court |
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Legal Profession AIM's for Diversity
CCIE's Innovative Inclusiveness Program
The Colorado Lawyer recently featured an article by Kathleen Nalty, CCIE's Executive Director. The article discusses the work of the ten legal organizations that are piloting Beyond Diversity: Inclusiveness in the Legal Profession, CCIE's innovative inclusiveness manual. The article also highlights CCIE's new Retention Initiative, which involves prominent corporate GCs and managing partners working together to create a model for leadership in legal diversity and inclusiveness. |
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Success = Diversity + Inclusiveness
A recent article by the Association of Legal Administrators (January/ February issue) points out the differences between diversity and inclusiveness and how traditional diversity efforts need to shift to incorporate inclusiveness. The author, Andres Tapia, Chief Diversity Officer at Hewitt Associates, discusses the need to create truly inclusive environments and how law firms need to question the effectiveness of traditional practices moving forward. |
ABA to Host Presidential Diversity
Distance Learning Program
American Bar Association President Carolyn Lamm will host the third and final program in the diversity CLE series "What Law School Didn't Teach You: Self-Advocacy for Survival and Sustainability," on Thursday, April 29, from 11:30 - 1:00 p.m. MST. It is designed to help lawyers identify their unique and diverse talents. For further details, please visit www.abacle.org/programs/t10wls.pdf. | |
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DRI Seeking Law Student Diversity Scholarship Applicants
The Defense Research Institutue is offering its annual Law Student Diversity Scholarship Program which is open to incoming second and third-year African-American, Hispanic, Asian, Pan Asian, Native American and female law students. Two $10,000 scholarships will be awarded.
All applications and references must be completed and received by DRI no later than Monday, May 3, 2010. Winners will be announced at the DRI Diversity for Success Seminar, June 10 - 11, 2010 in Chicago, Illinois. For complete details and guidelines, please visit www.dri.org. |
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Corporate Counsel to Reward Firms Focused on Diversity
A March Law360 article discusses recent efforts by a group of prominent corporate counsel who are encouraging law firms to continue with their diversity efforts. Although the recession has taken its toll on diversity efforts at some major U.S. law firms, corporations like American Airlines, Prudential, and Microsoft are stepping up efforts with outside counsel to focus on diversity. From giving more business to firms owned by minorities and women to increasing the number of hours such attorneys at large firms work on matters, major corporations are working together to help keep diversity a focus for businesses and law firms alike. | |
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