Third Annual Lighting the Path to Legal Education
September 17, 2008 at 7:00p.m. | Belo Mansion

Please mark your calendars for the Third Annual Lighting the Path to Legal Education event that will take place on September 17, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. at the Belo Mansion.

This year’s event will honor Regina Montoya for her career accomplishments and, more importantly, her commitment to the professional advancement of the Latino community.  Ms. Montoya is the CEO of New America Alliance, a nonprofit organization comprised of successful American Latino business leaders, whose mission is to promote the economic advancement of the Latino community.  In 2007, the Hispanic National Bar Association named Ms. Montoya the “Latina Lawyer of the Year.”  She was one of the first Latinas to earn partnership in a national law firm in the US, served in the Clinton Administration as an Assistant to the President as Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, and was a US public delegate to the United Nations.

The Event sells out every year, so make sure to reserve your seat as early as possible.  Last year, the event raised over $65,0000 for the Dallas Hispanic Bar Association Scholarship Foundation, which supports the Foundation¹s scholarship initiatives. The DHBA wants to surpass that amount this year.  If you are interested in serving as a sponsor, please contact Aaron Ramirez at aaron@texemploymentlaw.com.

The DHBA will also honor a distinguished corporate legal department with its Corporate Counsel Diversity Award in recognition of efforts demonstrating a  commitment to the goal of increasing diversity both within its corporate legal department and through its utilization of outside legal counsel that are themselves committed to diversity.  DHBA established the Corporate Counsel Diversity to recognize a corporate counsel who has shown through his or her leadership a commitment to increasing and supporting diversity within the legal profession.  Specifically, the Award recognizes a corporate counsel who has made the following efforts:

(1) to recruit and maintain minority attorneys;
(2) to promote minority attorneys;
(3) to ensure that outside counsel hire and promote minority attorneys; and
(4) to directly hire minority attorneys.

If you are interested in nominating a corporate legal department for the Corporate Counsel Diversity Award, please submit your nomination along with the reasons why you believe the corporate legal counsel should receive the award directly to angel@reyeslaw.com.  The DHBA is accepting nominations.

Past company award recipients include Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (2007) and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (2006).