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Programs and Events

We frequently attend, sponsor or host events, programs and conferences focused on diversity, inclusion and work-life balance.

Such recent and upcoming programs and events include:

April 2010
  • Take Our Children to Work Day, April 22.
  • Bronze Sponsor, YWCA of the Hartford Region's In the Company of Women luncheon featuring Michele Norris, Connecticut Convention Center, April 7.

March 2010
  • An Evening With Robert Simpson and Leander Dolphin and area law students, Shipman & Goodwin, March 24.

February 2010
  • Silver Sponsor, NBA Corporate Counsel Conference, San Diego, CA, February 25-27.
  • Black History Month Celebration, Shipman & Goodwin, February 11.

January 2010
  • Gold Sponsor, NEBLSA Regional Convention, Syracuse, NY, January 27-31.
  • UConn Law School Cultural Diversity Initiative Interview Program, January 20.
  • Bronze Sponsor, 25th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship Breakfast, January 18.

December 2009
  • Lawyers Collaborative for Diversity 2009 Annual Luncheon Meeting, Berlin, CT, December 14.
  • Lawyers Collaborative for Diversity and The George W. Crawford Black Bar Association Judges of Color Celebration, New Haven, December 3.

November 2009
  • 9th Annual Girl Within Luncheon to benefit The Shelter for Women, November 12.
  • MCCA Creating Pathways to Diversity Conference, New York, November 11.
  • Gold sponsor, Connecticut Hispanic Bar Association Sixteenth Annual Awards Dinner, The Hartford Club, November 5.

October 2009
  • Hartford Business Journal Diversity & Inclusion Conference, Hartford, October 30.
  • Lawyers Collaborative for Diversity Mentor Dinner and Program, Shipman & Goodwin, October 8.
  • S&G Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with celebration at 5 PM, October 7.

September 2009
  • Bronze Sponsor, South Asian Bar Association of Connecticut (SABAC) Third Annual Banquet, September 24.
  • Symposium on life and work of Constance Baker Motley, Quinnipiac University School of Law, September 18.
  • Patron Sponsor, Lambda Legal Connecticut Cares 2009, Westport, September 13.
  • Sponsor, National LGBT Bar Association Career Fair, Brooklyn, NY, September 10-12.
  • CAPABA 9th Annual Dinner & Silent Auction, New Haven, CT, September 9.
  • Sonia Sotomayor investiture, 2:00 p.m., September 8.

August 2009
  • CAPABA Luau, Lyman Orchards, Middlefield, CT, August 29.
  • Celebrate India, Conard High School, West Hartford, CT, August 29.
  • NEBLSA Job Fair, New Jersey, August 21.
  • Discrimination Claims After Ricci v. DeStefano, Quinnipiac University School of Law, August 18.

June 2009
  • The Amistad Center for Art & Culture's Juneteenth Celebration Gala, Wadsworth Atheneum, June 19. 

May 2009
  • Lessons Learned on the Way to the Top: Good is not Enough, Norwalk Community College, May 28.

April 2009
  • Take A Child To Work Day, April 23.
  • Platinum Sponsor, George W. Crawford Black Bar Association Annual Dinner, Hartford Hilton, April 16.

March 2009
  • Symposium on Minority Representation in the Connecticut State Judiciary, Yale Law School, March 31.
  • An Evening With The Honorable Vanessa L. Bryant, U.S. District Judge, District of Connecticut and Tracy L. Rich, Executive Vice-President, General Counsel & Secretary, The Phoenix Companies, Inc. and area law students, Shipman & Goodwin, March 30.
  • Co-sponsor, The Changing Face of HIV/AIDS, University of Connecticut School of Law, March 26.
  • Bronze Sponsor, YWCA of the Hartford Region's In the Company of Women Luncheon featuring Jeannette Walls, Connecticut Convention Center,      March 26.
  • Diversity Committee sponsored showing of Crash, Shipman & Goodwin,    March 19.
  • Lawyers Collaborative for Diversity Best Practices Forum, Strengthening Your Diversity Brand, March 12.
  • Connecticut Premiere of America the Beautiful, University of Hartford,    March 5.

February 2009
  • Black History Month Event: Firm celebration featuring Katherine Kane of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center:  February 19, Shipman & Goodwin.
  • NEBLSA Networking Reception, Western New England College School of Law, February 12.
  • NEBLSA Regional Conference, Springfield, MA, February 11-15.
  • Robert R. Simpson, Shipman & Goodwin Partner, received 2009 Black History Community Service Award from the Urban League of Greater Hartford, East Windsor, CT, February 7.

January 2009
  • UConn Law School Cultural Diversity Initiative Interview Program.
  • 24th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship Breakfast, January 19.

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