alliances Leadership Council on Legal Diversity In 2019, Crowell & Moring received the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity’s Compass Award for the second consecutive year. The award recognizes individuals and organizations that are among the most active members of LCLD. The firm has also consistently been designated an LCLD Top Performer. Crowell & Moring was one of the first law firms to sign on as a member of LCLD when it launched in 2009. Today, the organization has more than 330 corporate and law firm members, and its programs span the development timeline of legal professionals from law school to law firm managing partners and corporate general counsel. In 2019, the firm participated in four of LCLD’s key initiatives, continuing its involvement in the Fellows, Pathfinder, and 1L Scholars programs, and rejoining the 1L Mentoring program.
Affinity Group; from 2012 to 2018, he chaired the firm’s global recruiting function, spearheading efforts to improve our ability to recruit diverse candidates for summer associate and lateral positions and to implement unconscious bias and other training programs. Ryan has spearheaded a number of firmwide efforts both to drive, and to be responsive to, key clients’ demands for truly diverse legal teams of the highest quality, in the process helping the firm be selected to convergence and preferred counsel panels for those clients. He also mentors and sponsors associates from the LGBTQ+ community and other diverse groups. In 2019, The National Law Journal named him to its inaugural list of "Equality Trailblazers," recognizing lawyers who have made outstanding efforts to impact gender and LGBTQ+ equality in their respective firms and the legal profession-at-large. Previous Crowell & Moring Fellows include partners Trina Fairley Barlow (2018), A. Xavier Baker (2017), Chahira Solh (2016), Beatrice B. Nguyen (2014) and counsel Astor Heaven (2012). Partners Juan A. Arteaga, Lorraine M. Campos, and Valerie M. Goo participated in the Fellows Program before joining the firm.
Fellows Program The LCLD Fellows Program, launched in 2011, is one of the most comprehensive legal talent development programs in the United States. Designed to emphasize relationship building, transformational leadership, and professional branding, the program aims to produce lawyers with strong leadership skills, who are committed to fostering diversity within their own institutions and in the broader legal profession. Ryan C. Tisch, a partner in Crowell & Moring’s Antitrust Group, served as the firm’s 2019 Fellow. Ryan’s practice focuses on antitrust business counseling, merger control, and government antitrust investigations of horizontal and vertical conduct. He is a leader of the firm’s LGBTQ+
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I am so grateful to have had the experience of the LCLD Pathfinder program, where I forged strong relationships with new friends, both in law firms and in-house. The unique programming and networking events at the two in-person meetings provided for insightful discussions and specific takeaways that I hope to carry with me and utilize as an LCLD alumna. Sima Namiri-Kalantari, Counsel
