WASHINGTON, May 16, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- BakerHostetler is pleased to announce an extended partnership with Ellevate Network, the leading women's community focused on advancing women in the workplace and helping companies succeed. Through this partnership, the law firm will extend membership to all women associates and a pilot group of counsel and partners.
Access as an Ellevate Corporate Champion allows BakerHostetler's female attorneys at all levels to build and cultivate strong networks with other ambitious professional women and gain access to Ellevate's tools and resources, including webinars, articles and podcasts. The new members can also participate in Ellevate's virtual leadership development program, Squads, and build and hone the valuable skills that help support career advancement.
"We are thrilled to partner with Ellevate and join its professional community of high-achieving women around the world," said the chair of BakerHostetler's Women's Committee, partner Emily Crosby. "Ellevate's robust variety of resources will provide significant opportunities to our women attorneys at all levels for networking, skills development and thought leadership, and I look forward to our participation in this great organization."
"We are so pleased to establish a partnership with BakerHostetler," said Kristy Wallace, CEO of Ellevate Network. "Their ongoing commitment to developing the professional women within the firm is a strong example of a workplace that understands the value of inclusion and advancement of women and the key role that firms can play in boosting women's careers. We're excited to provide BakerHostetler's employees the support of a community of professional women to lean on and learn from."
About Ellevate Network
Ellevate Network is a community of women at work committed to elevating each other through education, inspiration and opportunity. We believe that when ambitious women get more opportunity – to have a voice in important conversations, to have a seat at the table where decisions are made, to steer our collective economic power toward that which we care about – it ultimately benefits everyone and leads to a more equal world. We do this by providing these women with a community to lean on and learn from. Ellevate Network also works with companies committed to gender diversity and has a proven track record of changing business culture from the inside out.
About BakerHostetler
Recognized as one of the top firms for client service, BakerHostetler is a leading national law firm that helps clients around the world address their most complex and critical business and regulatory issues. With five core national practice groups – Business, Labor and Employment, Intellectual Property, Litigation, and Tax – the firm has more than 970 lawyers located in 14 offices coast to coast. BakerHostetler is widely regarded as having one of the country's top 10 tax practices, a nationally recognized litigation practice, an award-winning data privacy practice and an industry-leading business practice. The firm is also recognized internationally for its groundbreaking work recovering more than $13 billion in the Madoff Recovery Initiative by representing the SIPA Trustee for the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC. Visit bakerlaw.com.
SOURCE Ellevate Network
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