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PROGRAMMING UPDATE 2020-2021


                               BOARD OF GOVERNORS APRIL 2021


                                    LOUISIANA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION
                                       MEMBER OUTREACH

                            AND DIVERSITY DEPARTMENT




               The Member Outreach and Diversity Department (hereinafter referred to as the “Department”)
               was formed January 10, 2008.  The Department and the LSBA Committee on Diversity in the
               Legal Profession (hereinafter referred to as the “Diversity Committee”) have been extremely busy
               implementing the programs and initiatives proposed by the Board of Governors and the Diversity
               Committee.

               The Diversity Committee is responsible for establishing initiatives and programs to accomplish
               the LSBA’s Strategic Plan’s Goal 3, which is to ensure that the “LSBA provides the foundation
               for a supportive and collegial community of legal professionals.”  That goal encompasses the
               diversity and inclusion goals for the LSBA and implicitly means that the LSBA will encourage
               and foster racial, ethnic, gender, geographic, generational, sexual orientation, and disability
               diversity as well as inclusiveness in the bar and in the legal profession.

               Outreach to Local and Specialty Bar Associations
               The Member Outreach  and Diversity Department provides staff assistance to the Diversity
               Committee, which is a standing committee of the LSBA.  Additionally, the Department supports
               efforts to develop and implement co-sponsored activities with local and specialty bar associations
               to enhance the LSBA’s profile with and provide services to attorneys throughout Louisiana in
               order to generate inclusiveness.  The local and specialty bar associations are as follows:

               Similarly, the Department has provided some staff  assistance to  and developed co-sponsored
               activities with specialty bar associations, especially those reflecting diverse members.  The
               specialty bar associations are as follows:

               A.P. Tureaud American Inn of Court                 Dean Henry George McMahon Am. Inn of Court
               American Board of Trial Advocate                   Fifth Federal Circuit Bar Association
               Association for Women Attorneys                    Florida Parishes of Louisiana American Inn of Court
               American Inn of Court of Acadiana                  Greater New Orleans Louis A. Martinet Legal Society,
               Association of Corporate Counsel of America        Inc.
               Baton Rouge Louis A. Martinet Legal Society, Inc.     Harry V. Booth American Inn of Court
               Crossroads Am. Inn of Court of Alexandria-Pineville     Inn on the Teche American Inn of Court


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