The Diversity Initiative is governed by a Global Diversity Committee comprised of partners from around the world who work in conjunction with regional and local committees in the United States and London. Its focus is to ensure that best practices are implemented in providing appropriate hiring, training and professional opportunities for minority lawyers, and to support innovative paths to achieving total inclusion for all individuals in all spheres.
We are conducting diversity training for our partners on implicit bias. The program, entitled "Inclusive Intelligence in Practice: Understanding and Interrupting Unconscious Biases in Feedback and Evaluation" is presented by Dr. Arin N. Reeves of Nextions LLC and is mandatory globally. Training for all our people is also conducted.
Global Diversity Committee
- Arlene Arin Hahn, Partner, New York (Chair)
- Donald Baker, Partner, São Paulo
- Joseph Brazil, Partner, New York
- Oliver Brettle, Partner, London
- Melody Chan, Partner, Hong Kong
- Vicente Corta Fernández, Partner, Mexico City
- Dennis Heuer, Partner, Frankfurt
- Caroline Miller Smith, Partner, London
- Nathalie Nègre-Eveillard, Partner, Paris
- Carina Radford, Partner, London
- Dipen Sabharwal QC, Partner, London
- Bijal Vakil, Partner, Silicon Valley
Ex Officio
- Maja Hazell, Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion, New York
London Diversity Committee
- Dipen Sabharwal QC, Partner, London (Chair)
- Adrian Beasley, Partner, London
- Melissa Butler, Partner, London
- Lindsey Canning, Partner, London
- Arlene Arin Hahn, Partner, New York
- John Reynolds, Partner, London
- Jeffrey Rubinoff, Partner, London
- Patrick Sarch, Partner, London
- Tallat Hussain, Counsel, London
- Sowande Coker, Lateral Recruitment Manager, London
- Maja Hazell, Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion, New York
- Madeleine Malik, Internal Communications Director, London
- Erica Pastfield, Head of Human Resources, London
US Diversity Committee
- Bijal Vakil, Partner, Silicon Valley (Chair)
- Ipek Candan Snyder, Partner, New York
- Adam Cieply, Partner, New York
- Angela Daker, Partner, Miami
- David Draigh, Partner, Miami
- Shamita Etienne-Cummings, Partner, Washington, DC
- Eric Grannon, Partner, Washington, DC
- Arlene Arin Hahn, Partner, New York
- Christopher Richardson, Partner, Houston
- Aalok Sharma, Partner, Los Angeles
- Anita Varma, Partner, Boston
- Justin Lee, Associate, New York
- Maja Hazell, Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion, New York
