The National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF) names attorney Leslie D. Davis as incoming Chief Executive Officer to assume leadership of NAMWOLF beginning March 1, 2021. Leslie will succeed current NAMWOLF CEO, Joel Stern, who is retiring as of February 28, 2021, following an extraordinary seven year tenure as NAMWOLF CEO. ...
NAMWOLF CEO, Joel Stern, has announced his retirement as of September 2020 at the close of the NAMWOLF Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. Joel has served as NAMWOLF’s CEO since March of 2014, and in that time has done extraordinary work to build NAMWOLF’s membership and brand, and to further NAMWOLF’s mission to increase legal diversity. ...
The legal industry is among the least diverse in the United States. In an article published by American Lawyer in July 2017, “Client Calls for Diversity at Fever Pitch,” the authors reported, “…The representation of women in the equity partner ranks has been stuck at around 18 percent for the past decade and the percentage ...
