Shearman & Sterling won “Asian Diversity Initiative of the Year” for its Women Partner and Associate Mentoring Circles program at ALM’s The Asia Legal Awards 2021 held virtually on May 5. The award recognizes projects or initiatives that law firms implemented in their Asian offices to improve diversity and inclusion in gender, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation and disability.
Launched in 2020, the Women Partner and Associate Mentoring Circles program fosters connections between practices, offices and seniorities throughout the firm and provides our women associate participants the opportunity to self-select a mentoring circle based on a variety of elements.
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