Dear Friends,

On behalf of nearly 50 legal organizations that make up the membership of The Boston Lawyers Group (BLG), I welcome you to our newly enhanced website. For more than 20 years with the support of our premiere member organizations, we have continued to play an important role in leading our collaborative consortium to discover innovative approaches to identify, recruit, advance and retain legal talent of color in Boston's legal community.

We are also pleased to announce that we have been warmly welcomed to our new home at Robinson & Cole's Boston office until 2012. This so aptly demonstrates their commitment, as one of our founding firms, to support our work to achieve a more diverse legal community for Boston.

Please take a few minutes to view BLG’s exciting agenda, including the program offerings we have for our leadership, attorneys and students of color. In the near future we will post interviews of some of our members. We believe they will provide you with interesting insight into diversity and workplace inclusion, as tools to support retention.

The generosity of spirit on display by the legal community even in these tumultuous economic times is a wonderful testament to the possibilities that exist when we come together to work towards common goals.

Please join us so that together the future for a diverse Boston legal community is a reality.

Many regards,

Carolyn

Carolyn Golden Hebsgaard
BLG, Executive Director

American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts ▪ Bank of America ▪ Bingham McCutchen LLP ▪ Brown Rudnick LLP ▪ Burns & Levinson LLP ▪ Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP ▪ City of Boston Corporation Counsel ▪ Day Pitney LLP ▪ Dechert LLP ▪ DLA Piper US LLP ▪ Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge ▪ Fidelity Investments ▪ Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP ▪ Fish & Richardson, P.C. ▪ Foley & Lardner LLP ▪ Foley Hoag LLP ▪ Goodwin Procter LLP ▪ Goulston & Storrs P.C. ▪ Grayer & Dilday, P.C. ▪  Harrison A. Fitch, P.C. ▪ Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP ▪ Holland & Knight LLP ▪ John Hancock Financial Services, Inc. ▪ Liberty Mutual ▪ Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office ▪ MassMutual Financial Group ▪ McCarter & English LLP ▪ McDermott, Will & Emery LLP ▪ Middlesex County District Attorney's Office ▪ Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. ▪ Murtha Cullina LLP ▪ Nixon Peabody LLP ▪ Proskauer Rose LLP ▪ Riemer & Braunstein LLP ▪ Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP ▪ Robinson & Cole LLP ▪ Ropes & Gray LLP ▪ Seyfarth Shaw ▪ Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP ▪ State Street Corporation ▪ Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office ▪ Sullivan & Worcester LLP ▪ United States Attorney’s Office ▪ Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP