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

• American Association of Blacks in Energy
• American Bar Association Commission on Disability Rights
• American Bar Association Commission on Racial & Ethnic Diversity in the Profession
• American Bar Association Minority Counsel Program
• American Bar Association Multicultural Women Attorneys Network
• Anti-Defamation League
• Asian American Bar Association of Chicago
• The Atlanta Legal Diversity Consortium
• The Black Women Lawyers' Association of Greater Chicago
  (Patricia Brown Holmes, Past President)
• Chicago Committee on Minorities in Large Law Firms
• The Chicago Network (TCN)
• The Coalition of Women's Initiatives in Law Firms
• 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
• Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys
  (Leah Ward Sears, Co-Founder, Past President)
• Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois
• Hispanic National Bar Association
• Indian American Bar Association of Chicago
  (Sailesh Patel, Advisory Council Member, Past President)
• Minority Corporation Counsel Association
• Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
• National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
• The National Bar Association
  (Eric L. Barnum, Deputy General Counsel)
• The National Employment Law Council
• 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 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) communities. 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. In 2011, Schiff Hardin LLP was ranked by Equality Illinois as a leading law firm in the state for its achievements in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) workplace equality. In 2011 and 2012, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's Corporate Equality Index gave Schiff Hardin a perfect score and highest ranking.

The chair of our firm's LGBT Diversity Subcommittee, Clay A. Tillack, was appointed by the American Bar Association's Forum on Franchising to serve as its liaison to the ABA's Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. 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:

• Equality Illinois
• Human Rights Campaign
• Atlanta Executives Network
• Harvard Lambda