We are grateful to our colleagues who lead our internal diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts as diversity-based Affinity Groups. It is through their leadership that has positioned us to foster a culture of belonging through celebrating authenticity. Leveraging their leadership, we are able to create a platform that allows us to grow together.

Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Lawyers

The Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Lawyers Affinity Group is intended to increase the firm community's understanding of the challenges and experiences of our Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) attorneys. This affinity group is also intended to create a space for open dialogue and discuss the unique challenges AANHPI professionals face within the legal profession. The goal would be to cultivate understanding, belonging, and support to facilitate greater empowerment, find strength in their own voices, and become a better advocate for themselves and for those around them.

Contact: Neal Seth

Black Lawyers

The Black Lawyers Affinity Group works to​ provide an opportunity to cultivate relationships among lawyers who self-identify as Black or of African descent, in order to improve ongoing efforts involved in recruitment, networking, career development, inclusion, and retention in the workplace. The goal of this group is to engage, across all levels of seniority, in understanding key issues that group members face and counsel new ways to make necessary improvements and changes to ensure that all members can work and grow successfully within the Firm.

Contact: Lukman Azeez

Latinx Lawyers

The Latinx Lawyers Group is an informal group of attorneys from diverse backgrounds that meets occasionally to allow partners to provide mentoring to associates on career advancement and business development issues and to allow attorneys to share experiences.

Contact: Edgar Class

LGBTQ+ Lawyers & Allies 

The LGBTQ+ Lawyers & Allies Affinity Group is open to all Wiley attorneys and is intended to be an internal forum for attorneys to openly discuss issues of interest to attorneys and law students who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. The group has many goals, including:

Contact: Duane Pozza

Minority Lawyers

The Minority Lawyers Affinity Group is an informal group of attorneys from diverse backgrounds that meets occasionally to allow partners to provide mentoring to associates on career advancement and business development issues and to allow attorneys to share experiences.

Contacts: Laura El-Sabaawi and Derick Holt

Parents-in-the-Law & Allies

​The Parents-in-the-Law Affinity Group is open to all Wiley attorneys, and aims to foster discussion about managing the demands of the practice of law with the demands of raising a family. The goal is that the group will become a valuable resource for Wiley attorneys in all stages of parenthood—from those weighing decisions about becoming parents, to expecting and new parents, as well as parents to children of all ages. The group strives to be over-inclusive and actively seeks the participation of veteran parents of grown children who are willing to counsel, advise, and offer mentorship to other attorneys navigating the unique challenges of simultaneously practicing law and parenthood.

Contact: Kate Dickerson

Veterans, Military Families & Allies

This Veterans, Military Families & Allies Affinity Group provides a forum for U.S. Veterans to meet to share their ideas, network internally and externally with other Veteran organizations, and provide a resource for our recruiting efforts in identifying and helping to encourage candidates with prior military experience to choose Wiley.

Contact: Scott Felder

Women's Forum

The Women's Forum Affinity Group is an informal group of attorneys from diverse backgrounds that meets occasionally to allow partners to provide mentoring to associates on career advancement and business development issues and to allow attorneys to share experiences.

Contacts: Laura El-Sabaawi, and Eve Reed


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