PALO ALTO, October 12, 2022– Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international law firm, has been named a Compass Award winner and a Top Performer by the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD).

LCLD is one of the nation’s leading organizations promoting diversity and consists of more than 430 corporate chief legal officers and law firm managing partners—the leadership of the profession—who have dedicated themselves to creating a truly diverse U.S. legal profession.

The Compass Award recognizes law firms and corporations showing a strong commitment to building more diverse organizations and a more inclusive legal profession. Those individuals and organizations must fulfill the following requirements in a single calendar year:

• Member attendance at the LCLD Annual Membership Meeting and/or Member attendance at a Leadership Summit and/or submission of a Leader’s Pledge.
• Participation in the LCLD Fellows and Pathfinder Programs.
• Participation in an LCLD Pipeline program (the 1L Scholars program or the Success in Law School Mentoring Program).

Top Performers are LCLD’s most active member corporations and law firms, representing those organizations with the highest level of engagement with LCLD over the year.

Last year, LCLD’s Board of Directors announced a requirement for each member to create a public pledge detailing actions they will take to advance diverse talent. We are proud to be among those organizations who created a pledge by the June 2022 deadline. To read the pledge by Baker Botts’ managing partner John Martin, please click here.

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