Diversity at Cooley Cooley’s commitment to attracting, mentoring and retaining an exceptional team of lawyers from as many backgrounds as possible is embedded in our culture. We are dedicated to maintaining a truly diverse workplace that values and celebrates differences – from the way we relate to and support each other to the way we work together to meet the needs of our clients. Employment and privacy & data protection partner Ann Bevitt is a London office representative on Cooley’s diversity committee, a firmwide group that meets bimonthly with the aim of strengthening a culture of inclu- sivity across Cooley. Our London office features chapters of the Minority Associates Group (MAG) and LGBTQ Affinity Group. Nicole Bieber and Prina Patel, associates in our tax and business litigation groups respectively, lead the MAG group in London. Corporate associate Russell Anderson co-chairs the LGBTQ Affinity Group globally and leads the group in London. Additional resource groups include our African American Affinity Group, Asian Pacific Islander Affinity Group and Caregivers Affinity Group. London business litigation partner Sascha Grimm, who in 2018 was listed in The Lawyer magazine as one of the “Hot 100” lawyers in the UK, is a founding member of Women in Law London (WILL), a legal networking organisation focused on the retention of women in the legal sector. Sascha is co-chair of Cooley’s Women’s Initiative and a representative for London alongside mergers & acquisitions partner Michal Berkner, business litiga- tion associate Joanne Elieli and debt finance associate Louise Ryberg. We’re proud of our annual commitment to Pathways to Law, which provides legal work experience to academically able, “A” level students from underprivileged backgrounds. In addition, we review summer programme applications on a name-blind basis and conduct behavioural interviewer and unconscious bias training for all our lawyers, directors and managers. We also implement the Rare Contextual Recruitment System as part of our application system. We are excited about what lies ahead in continuing to attract and retain diverse talent.
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