The Diversity Agenda (ePub)

chairs Hogan Lovells' Global Diversity and Inclusion Committee. She is a member of the SRA Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, the WILEF Global Advisory Board and the City of London Law Society Training Committee. She has a particular focus on recruitment of BME and socially disadvantaged graduates and the progression of women and LGBT lawyers in the profession. Ruth received the 2012 Association of Women Solicitors Award for Best Woman Solicitor Retaining and Developing Legal Talent and won "Woman Lawyer of the Year" at The Law Society Excellence Awards 2016. In 2016 she also won the Black Solicitors Network's Diversity Champion Award Karen Johnson-McKewan Karen Johnson-McKewan, a partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in San Francisco, specializes in litigation that crosses the boundaries between traditional legal practices. For more than 30 years, she has first-chaired state and federal trials, and arbitrated more than a dozen disputes. She manages intellectual property and commercial matters for companies such as Oracle, NVIDIA, Netflix, VMWare, and Levi Strauss & Co. She has been named one of the 100 "Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business" by the SF Business Times, one of the "Top Women Litigators" by the Daily Journal, and won the National Association of Women Judges' Florence K. Murray Award for leadership. Most recently, Karen has been named to The Hollywood Reporter's 2018 Power Lawyers list for her work on behalf of Netflix. Sharon E. Jones Sharon E. Jones is an internationally recognized expert, consultant, author, and speaker on diversity and inclusion, unconscious bias, and the legal profession. She is the author of Mastering the Game: Career Strategies for Success (2018), designed to explain the unwritten rules for successfully navigating large corporate workplaces for women, minorities, and other diverse individuals. Sharon is also the president of Jones Diversity, Inc., a diversity and inclusion consulting firm which works to create an inclusive workplace culture. Sharon has practiced law and been a community leader for over 25 years, including positions as a federal prosecutor, with major law firms and with Fortune 500 Corporations. Sharon is a past president of the Black Women Lawyers Association of Chicago and is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard College with a degree in Economics. Charlotte Ogilvie Charlotte Ogilvie is the marketing and communications executive at Garden Court Chambers, a high-ranking UK barristers' chambers based in central London that is committed to human rights, social justice, and equality. She is a first-class History graduate from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and has worked across a variety of communications and editorial roles internationally from Bangkok to Amman. Todd Sears Todd Sears is the founder and principal of Out Leadership, a global business advisory that connects leaders across the world's most influential industries to create business opportunities, cultivate talent, and drive LGBT+ equality forward. Todd began his career as an investment banker before moving to Merrill Lynch to become a financial advisor, where he created the first team of financial advisors on Wall Street to focus on the LGBT community. He then moved into diversity leadership, pioneering equality initiatives first at Merrill Lynch and then at Credit Suisse. Sears serves on the non-profit boards of the Williams Institute of UCLA, The Palette Fund, the Global Equality Fund of the United States Department of State and Lambda Legal, and is a graduate of Duke University. Yasmin Sheikh Yasmin Sheikh is the founder of Diverse Matters, a consultancy specializing in disability issues (both visible and non-visible disabilities) in the workplace. She is also the vice-chair of Lawyers with Disabilities Division (LDD) at the Law Society and also Council member representing LDD. Yasmin helps organizations empower their workforce to be disability confident through her consultancy services, workshops, coaching, and disability-focused events. She is a multi-award-winning speaker at the Professional Speakers' Academy and speaks regularly about diversity with a particular focus on disability at many large organizations. She is a former lawyer of 12 years; having acquired her injury in 2008, she is now a wheelchair user. Yasmin packages her experience, expertise, and knowledge to deliver informative and transformative workshops and events to both employees and employers to become more confident when it comes to diversity and disability. Daniel K. Winterfeldt Daniel K. Winterfeldt is a partner at Reed Smith and a US securities lawyer with over 18 years of experience, with his practice focusing on representing investment banks and corporate issuers in a wide range of securities transactions. Daniel is also the founder and chair of the InterLaw Diversity Forum, through which he has spearheaded the ground-breaking Career Progression Report in the Legal Sector, the Apollo Project to promote business cultural change, and the Purple Reign initiative, which highlights LGBT and straight ally role models and multiple identities. He was named the "Legal Innovator of the Year" at the Financial Times' Innovative Lawyers Awards in 2012 for his work in capital markets and diversity and inclusion.