Major Legal Services
® is committed to assisting our clients with their vision and goals of assuring a diverse,
enriched and inclusive work environment. We accomplish this by making positive efforts to reach out to
under-represented groups and by presenting top-notch candidates. We are also committed to understanding
and meeting the employment needs and career goals of all of our qualified candidates and to identifying
work environments that embrace diversity. Multi-ethnic, multi-racial, multi-generational and gender-balanced
workforces provide distinct perspectives, ideas and contributions. A diverse workforce also creates a
competitive advantage by providing firms and corporations with the important key to a better understanding
of the unique needs of their clients and of the domestic and global communities.
Major Legal Services
® believes a work force should reflect the diversity of the community it serves which, in
turn, enriches the lives of each of us who live and work in that community.
Links Providing Important Information on Diversity Issues:
Cleveland Bar Association Diversity Initiatives
http://www.clevelandbar.org/diversity.asp?id=193
Lists references and contacts for Women in the Law, Diversity Action and Minority Clerkships; scroll through list to get contact info
Diversity Inc.
www.diversityinc.com
Diversity news site with content updated daily
Coming Out of Her Shell
This Oil Company’s General Counsel Spoke Out and Became a Champion of Diversity
(Pdf version of article, December 2004, ABA Journal; presented here with permission)
New Faces, New Ideas: Diversity in Law Firms Makes Business Sense
http://www.lawcrossing.com/article/index.php?id=999
This article is from LawCrossing.com and is an original piece by a LawCrossing writer; presented here with permission
National Black Law Students Association
http://www.nblsa.org
Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM)
http://www.shrm.org/diversity
Workplace Diversity
http://www.WorkplaceDiversity.com
Law School Links
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
General listing of student organizations:
http://lawwww.cwru.edu/student_life/student_orgs.asp
Cleveland State University
www.csuohio.edu/student-life/studentorgs/orglist.html
Comprehensive list of student organizations including links to individual web sites.
Ohio Northern University
http://www.law.onu.edu/LAW/index.htm
Legal Association of Women
Ohio State University
Ohio State University Multicultural Center
Excellent list of partner organizations’ contact info’ for the Multicultural Center as well as providing links to diversity initiatives, related groups and the Diversity Leadership Transcript Program.
The University of Akron
http://www.uakron.edu/law/studorgs.php
From this site, the Asian-Latino Law Students Association, Black Law Students Association, Gay/Straight Law Alliance, and Law Association for Women info can be viewed.
The University of Cincinnati School of Law
http://www.law.uc.edu/students/organizations.html
Provides links to the Asian, Black, Hispanic, and Law Student Diversity Association.
The University of Dayton
http://diversity.udayton.edu/
Has links to web sites for Diversity Resources.
The University of Toledo School of Law
http://www.utlaw.edu/students/index.htm
Provides info on the Black, Hispanic and Women Law Students Organizations.
