Boies Schiller Flexner has nominated Andrew Villacastin as a 2022 Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) Fellow, and Vanessa Tussey, Rossana Baeza, Erika Nyborg-Burch, and Erica Sweeting as its LCLD Pathfinders.
Launched in 2011, the LCLD Fellows Program identifies high-potential attorneys from diverse backgrounds and sets them on the path to leadership.
The LCLD Pathfinder Program provides high-potential, early-career attorneys with career and leadership skills.
Founded in 2009, LCLD is a growing organization of more than 320 corporate chief legal officers and law firm managing partners who are personally committed to creating a more diverse and inclusive legal profession.
Boies Schiller Flexner is committed to diversity and inclusion at the firm, in the legal profession, and in society as a whole. We aim to foster a diverse and inclusive work environment that supports the recruitment, retention, and advancement of people from all backgrounds, at all levels of the firm. We believe that teams with diverse viewpoints and perspectives are critical to providing creative solutions to the unique needs of our global client base. The firm is certified under Mansfield 4.0. The Mansfield Rule measures whether law firms have affirmatively considered at least 30 percent women, lawyers of color, lawyers with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ lawyers (“historically underrepresented lawyers”) for significant leadership roles and activities in the firm.