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Executive Director Linda Chanow offers advice to firms seeking to promote more diverse and inclusive workplace environments.

Led by Executive Director Linda Chanow, members of the Consortium for Advancing Women Lawyers rallied support to adopt ABA Model Rule's new anti-discrimination rule.

Vicky Gunning, CWIL Leader and Managing Partner of Locke Lord LLP’s Dallas office, was recognized by Dallas Business Journal as a 2016 Women in Business honoree.

Brennan Center for Justice will honor CWIL Founder Sandra Phillips for her leadership and commitment to building diversity in the business sector and beyond.

CWIL Founding Member Sandra Phillips will be honored at the upcoming InsideCounsel Transformative Leadership Awards Dinner in Washington, DC.

Congratulations to CWIL Founders Linda Addison and Nina Cortell and Texas Law Dean Ward Farnsworth, who were recognized by Lawdragon as three of the top 500 leading lawyers in America in 2016.

CWIL Founder Claudia Frost was recently featured in Law360’s Trial Pros: Orrick’s Claudia Frost.

World IP Review has included CWIL Leader Hilda Galvan as a “WIPR Leader” in the 2016 edition of its directory of leading lawyers practicing in the areas of patents and trademarks worldwide.

Former CWIL Leader in Residence Roberta Liebenberg has been named as a recipient of the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award by the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession.

CWIL Founder and Akin Gump Houston office partner in charge Chris LaFollette has been named a finalist in Houston Business Journal’s inaugural Women Who Mean Business awards.