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DIVERSITY SUMMIT II
RECRUITMENT
& RETENTION SOLUTIONS
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| Close to 100 Tennessee law firm leaders, bar leaders and public officials converged at the Tennessee Bar Center today (Oct. 27) for a summit focusing on recruiting and retaining diversity in the legal community. M A session on recruiting and hiring featured former ABA President Dennis Archer; Vanderbilt’s David Williams; Wal-Mart’s Vice President and General Counsel Thomas Evans and Naomi McLaurin of Minority Corporate Counsel Associates in Atlanta. A session on retention featured Paulette Brown of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge in New Jersey, Charles Bone of Bone McAllester Norton in Nashville, Clarence Risin of Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz in Knoxville and Michael Brown. |
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Michael Brown, an attorney with Stites & Harbison in Louisville, opens the summit with a session making "The Case for Diversity." At his left are Nashville Bar Association President Sheree Wright and TBA President Larry Wilks. |
TBA President Larry Wilks (from left) with Wal-Mart's Thomas E. Evans, a vice president and general counsel with the firm's Logistics Division, and David Williams II, vice chancellor for university affairs, general counsel and secretary of the university at Vanderbilt University.
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Nashville Bar Association President Sheree Wright and TBA President Larry Wilks. |
A crowd of about 100 attorneys, Tennessee law firm leaders, bar leaders and public officials converged at the Tennessee Bar Center for the summit. |
Diversity Committee member Charles Grant of Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz welcomes attendees to the summit. |
David Williams (center) talks about recruiting a diverse staff while Thomas E. Evans and Naomi K. McLaurin of Minority Corporate Counsel Associates in Atlanta look on. Former ABA President Dennis Archer joined the panel by videoconference. |
Paulette Brown of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge in Short Hills, N.J., talks about issues in retaining a diverse staff during a panel program. |
Joining Paulette Brown on the retention panel were Charles Bone of Bone McAllester Norton in Nashville, J. Michael Brown of Stites & Harbison and Clarence Risin of Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz in Knoxville. Also on the panel, by videoconference, was Carl Smallwood of Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease in Columbus.
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