Awards & Grants
Thomas L. Sager Awards
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Award Description
The Sager Award is given to law firms that have demonstrated sustained commitment to improve the hiring, retention and promotion of minority attorneys. Each law firm recipient of the Sager Award will be profiled in Diversity & the Bar magazine, the official magazine of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association ("MCCA") published in conjunction with American Lawyer Media and distributed, on a quarterly basis, as an insert to Corporate Counsel Magazine to 30,000 members of the legal community nationwide.
For more information contact David Chu, Director of Membership and Development at 202.739.5906 or via email at davidchu@mcca.com
Selection Criteria
In addition to the statistical data that is set forth in the nomination application, the Board of Director’s will examine such areas as:
- Recruitment
- Retention
- Mentoring
- Promotion
- Pipeline Initiatives
- LGBT Initiatives
- Women Initiatives
- Work-Life balance
- Collaborative efforts with community and bar associations
- Innovative practices that result in sustainable efforts to increase diversity
NOTES
- Thomas L. Sager is the Senior Vice President and General Counsel at DuPont.
- For the purposes of this award, "minority" includes attorneys who are members of an ethnic minority.
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