While diversity and inclusion are organic to Brinks's work culture, we are continually mindful of them. Cynthia Homan, our diversity shareholder, and Gus Siller, chair of Diversity Committee, report directly to Gary Ropski, our president, and to the Board of Directors. Together with the Diversity Committee, Cindy and Gus oversee an array of initiatives in connection with:
- Recruitment of diverse lateral attorneys and law students;
- Retention and promotion of women, minority, and LGBT attorneys;
- Recommendations for sponsorship of diverse legal
and charitable organizations;
- Promotion and support of pipeline programs that provide avenues to
legal careers for young people from historically under-represented
groups;
- Review and recommendation for revisions of firm policies and practices
to ensure compliance with the firm's diversity and inclusion goals;
- Provision of mandatory, professional diversity and inclusion training
programs for all Brinks employees.
We encourage all of our attorneys to participate and seek positions of leadership in organizations that foster career success for members of groups historically under-represented in the legal profession. We offer appropriate moral and financial support in these endeavors. Some of the groups we currently support include:
- Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA)
- Chicago Committee on Minorities in Large Law Firms (CCOM)
- Coalition of Women's Initiatives in Law Firms
- National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA)
- North American South Asian Bar Association (NASABA)
- Indian American Bar Association (IABA)
- Lambda Legal
- Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Chicago (LAGBAC)
- National Bar Association
- Chicago Council of Black Law Student Associations (CCBLSA)
- University of Illinois College of Law Latino/a Law Students Association
- Washington University Black Law Students Association (BLSA)
- Iranian-American Bar Association
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