Centering Viewpoints
“Our women attorneys and managers meet on a monthly basis through our Women's Initiative Network, which we established during the summer of 2007. One goal is to provide opportunities for informal networking and mentorship to further the retention and advancement of women at the law firm. Our hope is that WIN contributes to a culture at Porzio in which our women attorneys and managers are genuinely supported in their efforts to succeed.”
LINDA PISSOTT REIG
PRINCIPAL AND CHAIR OF PORZIO’S WOMEN’S INITIATIVES NETWORK
Our Workplace Diversity Committee provides support for internal affinity groups. The Committee fully endorses Porzio’s first formal affinity group: Women’s Initiatives Network (WIN). Chaired by a firm principal and led by a Steering Committee, WIN provides women attorneys and managers with monthly opportunities for networking, professional development and training. Meetings feature internal and external speakers on a variety of topics ranging from managing a career and a family, dealing with the “old boys network” and “Mistmaking or Rainmaking HER Way” to “Political Capital: What is it and how to spend it.”
Firm members are encouraged to join external affinity groups and business networks. Our people belong to such organizations as:
Minority/Specialty Bar Associations/Committees:
- Armenian Bar Association
- Asian American Bar Association of New York
- Asian Pacific American Lawyers Association
- DuPont Minority Counsel Network
- Garden State Bar Association
- Hispanic National Bar Association
- Morris County Bar Minority Attorneys Committee
- Morris County Hispanic American Chamber of Commerce
- National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
- National Bar Association
- New Jersey Hispanic Bar Association
- New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Minorities in the Judiciary
- United Negro College Fund Professional Committee
- Urban League of Morris County
Associations/Committees Directed Toward Women:
- Business Development Committee for DuPont Women Lawyers’ Network
- DuPont Women Lawyers’ Network
- Healthcare Business Women’s Association
- International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation
- Morris County Bar Association Women Lawyer’s Committee
- New Jersey Society of Women Environmental Professionals
- New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Women in Court
- New Jersey Women Lawyer’s Association
- Steering Committee: DRI’s 2009 Women in the Courtroom Conference
The firm also sponsors attorney softball and basketball leagues and supports running and walking groups. Firm personnel often form fundraising teams for events sponsored by organizations ranging from Matheny Medical and Education Center and Multiple Sclerosis Society to American Diabetes Association and United Way.