The Minnesota State Bar Association Diversity Committee invites you to attend:

"Advancing Diversity within the Legal Community: A Gathering" featuring

• The Honorable Lorie Skjerven Gildea
  Associate Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court

• Leo I. Brisbois
  President, Minnesota State Bar Association

This reception will provide an opportunity for all those individuals, organizations, firms and corporations in Minnesota working on diversity and inclusion issues in the legal community to gather together, meet, and build relationships for future collaborations and efforts. In addition, this reception will be an opportunity to welcome law students attending the National Black Law Students Association Midwest Regional Convention being held in Minneapolis. Justice Gildea and MSBA President Brisbois will present brief remarks on current efforts to reinforce and expand diversity within the Minnesota legal system and profession. Hors d'oeuvres will be served and a cash bar will be available.

The MSBA Diversity Committee sincerely thanks the Midwest Region of the National Black Law Students Association (MWBLSA) for their in-kind support as well as the following corporations, firms and organizations for sponsoring this special event:

• Arthur Chapman Kettering Smetak & Pikala, P.A.
  
• Dorsey & Whitney LLP
• Faegre & Benson LLP
• Fredrikson & Byron P.A.
• Gray Plant Mooty
• Hennepin County Bar Association Diversity Committee
  
• Kagan Binder
• Kennedy & Graven
• Lindquist & Vennum PLLP
• Maslon Edelman Borman & Brand LLP
• Minnesota Association of Black Lawyers
• Minnesota Hispanic Bar Association
  
• Minnesota Lavender Bar Association
• National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Minnesota Chapter (NAPABA-MN)
• Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP
• Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P.
• Twin Cities Diversity in Practice
• William Mitchell College of Law
  
• Xcel Energy
• Zelle Hofmann Voelbel & Mason LLP

Additional sponsors are welcome and encouraged. Please contact Sitso Bediako for more information on sponsorship.

Details:

Date:   Friday, February 19, 2010
Time:  5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Location:   Windows on Minnesota
50th Floor IDS Center, 80 S. Eighth Street, Minneapolis, MN 55402