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Goodwin Procter sponsors specific organizations and initiatives that work to make the legal profession and the justice system more accessible to all.
Examples of Recent Sponsorships
- American Bar Association 2007 National Conference for the Minority Lawyer
Goodwin Procter was a Gold Level Sponsor of this event which offers a combination of practical training sessions and cutting-edge, substantive CLE programs designed specifically for minority lawyers. The firm also sponsored a lunch session entitled "On Becoming a Leader: Minority Lawyers and their Vision for the Future."
- Boston College Undergraduate Students of Color Law Career Panel
Goodwin Procter Senior Counsel Wayne Budd moderated an all-Goodwin Procter panel of diverse associates for BC undergraduate students of color interested in a legal career.
- Asian Pacific American Bar Association of the Greater Washington, D.C. Area (APABA-DC)
Goodwin Procter sponsors APABA, the oldest and largest association of Asian Pacific American attorneys in the Washington, DC area.
- Harvard NASALSA in San Francisco
In February 2007, the firm was a Gold Level Sponsor of the Harvard North American South Asian Law Students Association (NASALSA) conference in San Francisco. Goodwin partner Tuan Pham, of the firm’s San Francisco office, spoke at this event about working at a large law firm. The conference’s theme, Building a Bridge to Influence, focused on ways that South Asians in the legal community can increase the influence of the larger South Asian community in North America.
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Key Initiatives
Goodwin Diversity Fellowships
To promote diversity in the legal profession, and to help leading minority law students defray the high costs of their legal education, Goodwin Procter has created the Goodwin Diversity Fellowships. Through these Fellowships, we annually award stipends of $15,000 each to up to five minority law students who demonstrate exceptional academic performance, outstanding leadership, a commitment to community service, interest in the private practice of law and other special achievements and honors. Finalists who do not receive a Fellowship may receive an offer to join our summer associate program following their second year of law school
Professional Development Retreats
Each year, we conduct a special day-long program for our attorneys and summer associates of color. In 2007, the program included a negotiation seminar for associates and summer associates, as well as a reception at the home of Senior Counsel Wayne Budd , and small group dinners for associates, summer associates and partners of color and additional CRED members. In summer 2006, we hosted a highly interactive career management training, led by Werten Bellamy of Stakeholders, Inc., to give our associates and summer associates of color practical ways to take control of their own careers.
Boston Lawyers Group Mentor Program
Goodwin attorneys have enthusiastically participated in the Boston Lawyers Group mentor program for first-year law students of color in the Boston area for several years. Goodwin is a founding member of the Boston Lawyers Group, an organization dedicated to fostering inclusiveness at Boston-area legal employers. In 2006 and 2007, Goodwin was one of leading law firm providers of mentors for this program, and in both years the firm also hosted the BLG Mentor Program Kick-off Dinner for all participants and mentees. The program is designed to provide first year law students of color with the opportunity to develop a one-on-one relationship with a practicing attorney from one of the member organizations.
Legal Outreach
For the past three years, Goodwin Procter’s New York office has partnered with Legal Outreach, Inc., a nonprofit organization that prepares youth from underserved communities in New York City to compete at high academic levels by using intensive legal and educational programs as tools for fostering vision, developing skills, enhancing confidence and facilitating the pursuit of higher education. Goodwin participates in two programs with Legal Outreach. The first is the Summer Law Internship Program, through which Goodwin hosts minority high school students as interns and provides them with training programs and mentoring to introduce them to life as a lawyer and to encourage them to pursue higher education.
The second program is Legal Outreach’s College-to-Law School Pipeline program, which helps minority college students prepare for law school through LSAT courses, paralegal positions at law firms and additional training on law school preparation. As part of our support of this program, the firm contributed to the cost of an LSAT course for a disadvantaged student, and will employ a college student of color as a summer paralegal in 2007.
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