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Street Law / Newsroom / Allstate Department of Law and Regulation to receive Street Law's Legal Diversity Pipeline Award
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Allstate attorneys in New Jersey help students prepare for a mock negotiation.
February 16, 2011 | Washington, DC
Street Law, Inc. is proud to announce the recipient of its 2011 Legal Diversity Pipeline Award—the Allstate Department of Law and Regulation. The award will be presented at the Street Law Awards Dinner on April 13, 2011, in Washington, DC. Michele Coleman Mayes, senior vice president and general counsel, will accept the award on behalf of the department.
Allstate’s law department participates in the Street Law / ACC Corporate Legal Diversity Pipeline Program, where they work to encourage young people of color to pursue legal careers by providing them with role models, career education, and hands-on experiences in the legal field. Dozens of Allstate lawyers, paralegals, and other legal professionals volunteer in local high schools, where they teach students civil law lessons. Participating students attend a field trip to Allstate or a partner law firm, where the volunteers engage students in interactive workshops and legal simulations.
Allstate began participating in the Corporate Legal Diversity Pipeline program during the 2005-06 school year in Chicago, IL. Since then the department has added ten more sites across the country, reaching over 500 students each school year. Allstate has more pipeline sites, more law department volunteers, and reaches more students than any other participating corporation.
Currently, Allstate’s Pipeline Programs run in eleven cities—most in collaboration with one of the company’s Premier Law Firms:
Two more sites, Philadelphia and New Orleans, are scheduled to start in the spring of 2011.
In addition to visiting high school classrooms to teach about various aspects of the law—from insurance and driving to employment, immigration, and the first amendment—a grant from the Allstate Foundation has supported the development of new lesson plans and teaching materials for these sites. These relevant legal topics include distracted driving and domestic violence.
Each year, the Legal Diversity Pipeline Award is presented to an individual, corporate legal department, law firm, or law school for outstanding participation in one of Street Law's Diversity Pipeline Programs. Recipients are selected based on the quality of the programming, the numbers of students reached, innovative methods and approaches, and work towards growing and strengthening the program in the legal community. Past recipients of Street Law’s Corporate Legal Diversity Pipeline Award include the following:
Source: (Reproduced with permission)
Corporate Legal Diversity Pipeline Program
Topic: Diversity
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