Congratulations to CWIL Founder Claudia Frost who is joining 12 other partners to open Orrick’s new Houston office.

"Peggy brings 30 years of energy and management experience to our board. Peggy's strategic knowledge of the midstream business and master limited partnerships will strengthen our board," Board Chairman Robert C. Skaggs, Jr. noted. "We are pleased to welcome Peggy to our team."

President Obama has expanded an executive order requiring companies to report to the federal government what they pay employees on criteria of race, gender, and ethnicity, as a means to close the pay gap.

Linda Chanow, Executive Director of CWIL, was quoted in Law360 regarding the new EEOC rule issued by President Obama to uncover potential pay gap discrepancies.

CWIL Leader-in-Residence Roberta D. Liebenberg, a partner at Fine Kaplan and Black in Philadelphia, was named to the Board of Directors of the American Antitrust Institute (“AAI”).

Roberta Liebenberg discusses the collaborative efforts to increase diversity in court appointments, including CWIL's Court Appointments Working Group

CWIL Founding Member Jane Macon has been announced to receive World Affairs Council’s 2016 International Citizen Award on February 25, 2016.

CWIL Founding Member Susan L. Blount will be honored as The Joyce Ivy Foundation‘s 2016 Leader of the Year at their Summer Scholars Gala on May 7th.

CWIL Founding Member Diana Marshall is a 2016 Association of Women Attorneys Premier Women in the Law honoree.

Congratulations to Michele Coleman Mayes, vice president, general counsel and secretary for The New York Public Library, on receiving CWIL’s Hortense Ward Woman of Courage Award. Michele will be honored at CWIL’s Biennial Awards Luncheon on April 15, 2016.