Milbank to Host Reception for California Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno to Address Hispanic National Bar Association on Diversity Issues
LOS ANGELES, CA, March 27, 2008 – International law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy will host a reception for California Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno to speak to the Hispanic National Bar Association on diversity issues. The reception will be held on April 10, 2008 from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm in the Firm’s Los Angeles office.
“It’s an honor to host Justice Moreno and the Hispanic National Bar Association to exchange thoughts on the critical issue of diversity in the legal community,” said Linda Dakin-Grimm, a Litigation partner in the Los Angeles office and member of the firm-wide Diversity Committee.
With his appointment to the Supreme Court of California, Justice Moreno became only the third judge of Hispanic heritage to serve in the Court's nearly 150-year history, and the first in more than a decade. As an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court, Justice Moreno reviews on appeal a wide range of civil and criminal cases, which have substantial state and federal constitutional implications. He began his career as a deputy city attorney with the Los Angeles City Attorney's office, prosecuting criminal and civil consumer protection cases and handling politically sensitive and legislative matters as special counsel to the city attorney. Justice Moreno has served as President of the Mexican American Bar Association and has been a member of the California Judges Association, the Presiding Judges Association, and the Municipal Court Judges Association of Los Angeles County.
“This event underscores Milbank’s commitment to the recruitment, retention and promotion of attorneys from a broad range of backgrounds,” said Ms. Dakin-Grimm. In 1992, Milbank was one of the first major law firms to establish a Diversity Committee. Among the committee’s first initiatives in the 1990s was offering same sex health care benefits to attorneys and administrative staff. The Milbank Diversity Committee, in conjunction with the Associate Liaison Group, examines a range of topics relevant to enabling all individuals to thrive and succeed at the Firm. Additional initiatives include Milbank's groundbreaking Diversity Scholars Program which selects at least two Scholars each year who receive a salaried summer associate position and a $50,000 scholarship. ($15,000 to be distributed during the students' third year of law school and payment of the additional $35,000, contingent upon receipt and acceptance of a Milbank permanent offer, to be paid upon the students' joining the Firm.)
Founded in California in 1972, the Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) is an incorporated, non-profit, national association representing the interest of over 33,000 Hispanic American attorneys, judges, law professors, and law students in the United States and Puerto Rico. The primary objectives of the HNBA are to increase professional opportunities for Hispanics in the legal profession and address issues of concern to the national Hispanic community.
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