Organizations

Schiff Hardin attorneys are active in many organizations that seek to promote greater diversity in the legal profession, including:

• American Bar Association Commission on Racial & Ethnic Diversity in the Profession 
• American Bar Association Multicultural Women Attorneys Network
• The Association of Professional Insurance Women
• The Atlanta Legal Diversity Consortium
• The Black Women Lawyers' Association of Greater Chicago
  (Marla Shade Harris, Board Member, Recording Secretary)
  (Tracy A. Campbell, Chair of the Board of Directors for the Scholarship Foundation)
  (Patricia Brown Holmes, past president)
• The Bronx Women's Bar Association
  (Beth D. Jacob, Treasurer)
• Chicago Committee on Minorities in Large Law Firms
  (Ismail Alsheik, Member of the Associate Board)
  (Particia Brown Holmes, Member of the Board of Directors)
• The Chicago Network (TCN)
• Commercial Real Estate Executive Women of Chicago/CREW Chicago
• Corporate Counsel Women of Color
• The Gate City Bar Association
  (Eric L. Barnum, Board Member at Large)
• Georgia Association for Women Lawyers
• The Hispanic Lawyers Scholarship Fund
• Indian American Bar Association of Chicago
  (Sailesh Patel, Advisory Council Member, Past-President)
• Minority Corporation Counsel Association
• Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
• Muslim Bar Association
• National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
  (Byung J. ("BJay") Pak, Co-Chair, Criminal Law Committee)
• The National Bar Association
• The National Employment Law Council
  (Eric L. Barnum — Executive Committee Member)
• North American South Asian Bar Association
  (Sailesh Patel, Board Member)
• Queen's Bench Bar Association
• The Women's Council on Energy and the Environment

Schiff Hardin has for many decades been well known for its involvement and pro bono work with the LGBT community. Organizations such as the AIDS Legal Council of Chicago, Hearts Foundation, and Howard Brown Health Center Legal Services Center have recognized our attorneys and our firm for exemplary achievements. We also have been active in cases with the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund.

Our work in this are includes representation of a client in his claim under the Chicago Human Rights Ordinance against the Chicago Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America.

Our other related organizational involvements include:

• Stonewall Bar Association
• Human Rights Campaign
• Atlanta Executives Network
• Harvard Lambda