Diversity Program Highlights:
Lowenstein Sandler Scholars Program
Now in its third year; the Lowenstein Sandler Scholars Program provides each of two 1L minority students from select law schools (including Rutgers, Seton Hall, Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Georgetown, and Penn) with a $10,000 scholarship for educational expenses (renewable for the third year of law school) and a summer internship with the firm.
STRIDES – Advancing Women in Business – A Lowenstein Sandler Initiative
Lowenstein Sandler created STRIDES in 2006 to promote visibility, leadership opportunities, and quality interaction among peers for women in business. Focusing outward, beyond more typical, internal women’s groups, STRIDES invites firm members’ clients, colleagues, and contacts from diverse venues to several events a year, which combine collegial, professional networking with formal presentations, panel discussions, or informal roundtables on effective career advancement solutions for high-level women in business, as well as leading-edge policies for businesses committed to retaining and promoting talented women. STRIDES often partners with other associations, including the New Jersey Corporate Counsel Association and 85 Broads, for program sponsorship.
American Conference on Diversity
This organization, dedicated to educating and empowering current and future leaders by fighting discrimination and promoting mutual understanding and inclusion, operates a leadership institute that brings together urban students from inner-city high schools with their suburban peers for a variety of student-level programs. The Conference supports this mission by providing diversity training to companies throughout the state’s business community. In 2007, Managing Director Michael L. Rodburg was named Chair of the organization’s Board of Trustees.
Rutgers Minority Summer Program
Lowenstein Sandler has a thirty-year history of sponsoring and partnering with this program, through which the firm attends an annual recruitment fair sponsored by Rutgers University School of Law; sponsors an annual dinner for 1L Minority Student Program participants to present the components of a successful summer internship; hires at least one first-year minority student as a summer law clerk; and sponsors the Rutgers Law School Program, whereby the firm funds a student to work for the summer in the public interest law or government sector.
Lowenstein Sandler Annual Mentoring Dinner Program
The Annual Mentoring Dinner includes a prominent in-house counsel speaking to the firm's junior attorneys about mentoring-related issues. The speaker this year was Laurie A. Carter, Vice President and General Counsel of The Juilliard School. Prior speakers included PD Villarreal from Schering-Plough (Vice President & Associate General Counsel of Litigation & Conflict Management); and Cornell Boggs from Tyco Plastics & Adhesives (Vice President and General Counsel).
Lowenstein Sandler Diversity Committee Sponsored Breakfast Series
This series was instituted to increase opportunities for all attorneys at the firm to discuss matters related to diversity issues; for members and associates to mingle and share insights/experiences in an informal environment; and to foster connections among attorneys at the firm interested in diversity issues who may not otherwise work together.
New Jersey Law Firm Group
The firm is a sponsor and member of this nonprofit organization designed to help minority students at Rutgers University School of Law and Seton Hall University School of Law to obtain employment with New Jersey’s larger law firms. We also participate in the group’s mentoring program, which pairs first-year minority students with practicing attorneys who help them define their career objectives.
Diversity Infrastructure
Such a comprehensive slate of dynamic diversity programs would not be possible without a structural commitment to diversity. Lowenstein Sandler’s operational infrastructure, including our human resources, recruiting, and management functions, fully supports the Firm’s commitment to diversity with a slate of benchmarks and benefits; spurs the creation and implementation of our diversity programs; and ensures accountability for achieving goals.
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