Attorney mentoring programs are legion. But the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity hopes to break the mold by singling out up-and-coming attorneys and placing them in the direct path of law firm managing partners and the general counsel of some of the country’s largest companies. The council’s Fellows Program is intended to help diversify the legal profession by producing attorneys with strong leadership and networking skills—and who are committed to fostering diversity within their own institutions.
LCDC launched the program in March with a gathering in New York of more than 100 fellows who rubbed elbows with the various managing partners and general counsel involved. “This concept is not new, but the group we have involved is different,” says Roderick Palmore, general counsel of General Mills Inc. and the chairman of the council.
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