Diversity & the Bar® is excited to congratulate the following minority attorneys who were promoted officially to partner during 2007; their dedication and hard work have earned this benchmark achievement in their careers. We also would like to acknowledge the law firms who have promoted these attorneys; we thank these firms for their unyielding efforts to promote an increasingly inclusive legal profession.
Please join us in wishing these new minority partners and the law firms the best in their endeavors!
* Lateral Hire
| FIRM NAME | NEW MINORITY PARTNER |
|---|---|
| Adams and Reese LLP | Bedouin L. Joseph |
| Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP | Kyle Hoshide Chris Safarian |
| Andrews Kurth LLP | *Elizabeth Campbell |
| Arent Fox LLP | Ed Rojas Roy Z. Silva |
| Arnall Golden Gregory LLP | Karen V. Mills |
| Arnold & Porter LLP | *James W. Cooper *Paolo Di Rosa *Gaela Gehrig Flores *Raul Herrera Lily Lu *Juan M. Trujillo |
| Baker Botts L.L.P. | Gavin R. Villareal *Victor Vital *Melvin M. Wright Jr. |
| Baker & Hostetler LLP | Mathew B. Beredo Fernando A. Bohorquez Jr. Sameer V. Mohan Phong D. Nguyen Monica S. Verma |
| Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP | *Michael V. Hodge *Robert C. Kim *Kenya S. Mann *Emilie R. Ninan *Lydia W. Wu |
| Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver | Charles L. Rice Jr. |
| Bingham McCutchen LLP | Susan Kim |
| Blackwell Sanders LLP | *Patrice Brown Wendy Boldt Cohen |
| Blank Rome LLP | Pelayo Coll Pedro Ramos |
| Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP | Tanya Chutkin Alanna Rutherford |
| Bowman and Brooke LLP | Roshan N. Rajkumar |
| Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione | Lawrence G. Almeda |
| Bryan Cave LLP and Affiliates | Gerald DaRosa Wesley Fields Rodney Perry |
| Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC | Laura L. Lee |
| Bullivant Houser Bailey PC | John Yung |
| Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP | *Deryck Palmer |
| Cairncross & Hempelmann, P.S. | Alice Wong |
| Carlton Fields, P.A. | Alina Alonso *Carlos A. Mas *Dennis J. Olle *Kenneth R. Uncapher |
| Carroll, Burdick & McDonough LLP | Angela J. Reddock |
| Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP | Shawn J. Chen Chantal E. Kordula |
| Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, P.L.L.C. | Jenny R. Yang |
| Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP | Teena-Ann V. Sankoorikal |
| Cromwell & Moring LLP | *Arif Ali Bridget Calhoun *Mark Romero |
| Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP | Andrea Wang |
| Davis Polk & Wardwell | Michael Davis Kimberly D. Harris Kirtee Kapoor Jinsoo H. Kim James C. Lin Mark M. Mendez |
| Day Pitney LLP | *Frank Lee Shawn T. Wooden |
| Debevoise & Plimpton LLP | Jyotin Hamid |
| Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP | Paul Chen Christine Chi Chang-do Gong *Londell McMillan *John Quinones *Michael Steele |
| Dickstein Shapiro LLP | DeAnna Allen Eli Curi *James Murray |
| DLA Piper US LLP | Anthony Ashton Maria Ellena Chavez‑Ruark *Khoa Do Peter M. Ellis *Eduardo Roy Raj N. Shah |
| Dorsey & Whitney LLP | *Eric Lopez Schnabel |
| Drinker, Biddle & Reath, LLP | *Gregory P. Miller |
| Dykema | Adesh Bhargava Robert D. Ramage |
| Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP | *Alphonso E. Tindall, Jr. |
| Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. | *Purvi B. Maniar |
| Eversheds, LLP | *Daniyal Ansari *Stuart Dutson Kuljit Ghata‑Aura Kuljeet Hothi Boris Martor |
| Faegre & Benson LLP | Nina Y. Wang Marie E. Williams |
| Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP | Andrew Nunes |
| Fenwick & West LLP | Narinder Banait Andrew Kim Felix Lee |
| Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto | Ha Kung Wong |
| Foley & Lardner LLP | Jason W. Allen *Roy J. Barquet *Guillermo J. Fernandez‑Quincoces Zhu (Julie) Lee *Catherine Sun |
| Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. | Graig J. Alvarez *Michael Adrian Battle *Cindy Kang Yvan‑Claude J. Pierre *Alexandre Herman Rene |
| Funk & Bolton, P.A. | Hisham Amin |
| Garvey Schubert Barer | Akane Suzuki |
| Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP | *William Candelaria Rashida La Lande *Debra Wong Yang |
| Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. | Charles W. Cousland *Donsia Strong Hill |
| Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan LLP | *AR Abdoul Karim *Avery L. Goodrich Jr. Elizabeth A. McDuffie *Darryl Tom *Vincent Vigil *Timothy W. Wright III |
| Goodwin Procter LLP | *Gerald G. ‘Jerry’ Chacon Jr. *Byron W. Cooper Erica W. Kuo Yash A. Rana |
| GrayRobinson, P.A. | Walter J. Harvey |
| Greenberg Traurig, P.A. | Rhonda D. Bond‑Collins Jonathan M. Perry |
| Hanson Bridgett | Marcus W. Wu |
| Hao Barnes LLP | Glenn Barnes |
| Haynes and Boone, LLP | Purvi Patel |
| Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP | Barbara Fernandez *Leslie Richards‑Yellen Daniel Trevino |
| Hogan & Hartson LLP | David H. Ben‑Meir *Joseph Hernandez *Man Chiu Lee Gonzalo Rodriguez Matos Alethia Nancoo Waajid Siddiqui |
| Holland & Hart LLP | *Anthony ‘Tony’ Shaheen |
| Honigman, Miller and Cohn LLP | Stanley H. Pitts |
| Hunton & Williams LLP | Rudene Mercer Bascomb *Henry Talavera |
| Jackson Lewis, LLP | *David R. Jimenez Joel P. Kelly |
| Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer & Weiss, P.C. | Erika Akinyemi |
| Jenner & Block LLP | Darrick J. Hooker Raymond D. Sinnappan |
| Jones Day | Aaron L. Agenbroad Benjamin Bai *Patrick S. Belville Dean A. Calloway Noel J. Francisco Paul Lin Wade R. Wagatsuma |
| Jorden Burt LLP | Enrique D. Arana Shaunda A. Patterson‑Strachan |
| Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP | *Ariel Dybner *Tasneem Goodman *Janaki Sivanesan |
| Kaye Scholer LLP | Rhonda Trotter |
| Kenyon & Kenyon | Sheila Mortazavi Huiya Wu |
| Kilpatrick Stockton LLP | Chintan Amin Naho Kobayashi Daniel Marti Raj Natarajan Tanya Hairston Whitner |
| King & Spalding, LLP | Alan Dial |
| Kirkland & Ellis LLP | Arshad A. Ahmed Anu Balasubramanian *Binta Niambi Brown Albert S. Cho Tobias D. Chun Tiffany P. Cunningham Tai‑Yeu Hsia Jenny N. Lee Lucy K. Park Laura A. Rupenian Kalpesh K. Shah Nyika O. Strickland |
| Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP | Theodore J. Angelis *Ben S. Bedi Won‑Han Cheng *Chien Wei Chou Elaine Y. Chow Betty Louie *Josefina Fernandez McEvoy Anthony R. Miles James H. Prenton Yujing Shu *Danny Tsang Emily L. Won |
| Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP | Abraham Chuang Mincheon Kim Donald Min Zi Wong Christopher D. Glos Lyneth A. Rhoten Thomas T. Roubidoux |
| Lane Powell PC | William Lin *Portia R. Moore David Young |
| Leader & Berkon LLP | S. Alyssa Young |
| Liskow & Lewis, A Professional Law Corporation | Endya E. Delpit Dana M. Douglas |
| Littler Mendelson, P.C. | *Carlos Burruezo *Robert Clayton Tanja Darrow *Anthony Hall *Jeffrey Jones *Lessie Jones *Jorge Lopez *Juan Lopez‑Campillo *Janette Louard *Marianela Peralta *Arturo Ross *Salvador Simao |
| Loeb, Block & Partners LLP | Arlene Burgos Yuisa Carrillo‑Rey |
| Lowenstein Sandler PC | Miguel A. Pozo |
| McCarter & English, LLP | Josefina Martinez |
| McGlinchey Stafford, PLLC | Raymond A. Chenault |
| McGuireWoods LLP | LaTisha O. Chatman Angela M. Spivey |
| McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP | Bikram Bandy *Charlotte Combre *Mimi Lee Andy Park *Denise Trujillo |
| Mehaffy Weber, P.C. | Dawn Tezino |
| Miller Nash LLP | Hong Huynh |
| Morgan and Morgan | *L. Chris Stewart |
| Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP | E. John Park Erica Smith‑Klocek Wayne W. Song *Alicia Villarreal |
| Morris James LLP | Thomas E. Hanson Jr. |
| Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP | Tiffany C. Woodie |
| Nixon Peabody LLP | *Anjali Chaturvedi *Benjamin W. Lau *Justin D. Swindells Patrice H. Talbott |
| Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. | Brandon M. Shelton |
| O’Melveny & Myers LLP | Margaret Ikeya Li Qiang *Patty Perez *Srivanth Srinivasan Solomon Wifa Ryan Yagura |
| Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP | Oswald B. Cousins Mark W. Seneca Harold M. Yu |
| PattonBoggs | Stephanie Peters |
| Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP | Liza Velazquez |
| Perkins Coie LLP and Affiliates | *Theodore Chung *Kurt S. Clulow Iveth Durbin Shailesh Mehra *Pravin B. Rao James Zhu |
| Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP | Annie Huang |
| Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP | Theresa V. Brown‑Edwards |
| Reed Smith LLP | *Marvin A. Artis *Lisa M. Carvalho Miles M. Cooley *Edward J. Estrada *Ken Ikari Nanda P. Kuman *Cathernia Y. Min Hardy R. Murphy Sakil Suleman *Michael Wynne |
| Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A. | Angelique R. Vincent |
| Ropes & Gray LLP | Elizabeth J. Reza Sunil William Savkar Dalila Argaez Wendlandt |
| Saul Ewing LLP | Maurice A. Bellan *Orlan Johnson *Sheryl Robinson Wood |
| Schiff Hardin LLP | Tracy A. Campbell |
| Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt | Roman Hernandez |
| Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC | Qing (Becky) Lin |
| Seyfarth Shaw LLP | Devjani Mishra L. Lynnette Sarno |
| Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. | *David L. Douglass *Jon R. Gray Darolyn Y. Hamada *Paul Clinton Harris Sr. *Humberto H. Ocariz |
| Shutts & Bowen LLP | Maria A. Gralia Francis E. ‘Frank’ Rodriguez Aliette D. Rodz Sandra M. Upegui |
| Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP | Leslie C. Peng |
| Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP | Zenas J. Choi *Rudy Y. Kim Monika J. Machen Felix Woo |
| Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP | Terry Thomas |
| Stafford Frey Cooper | Kim Tran |
| Steptoe & Johnson LLP | *Michelle Cooke José Gonzélez‑Magaz *Richard Verma |
| Sullivan & Cromwell LLP | Robert Chu Suhana Han Tracy High |
| Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP | Thomas R. Bundy, III Michael C. Castellon |
| Swanson, Martin & Bell, LLP | Arthur J. Reliford, Jr. |
| Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP | Mahendra Churaman *Edmund D. Cooke Jr. *David N. Fong *O’Kelly E. McWilliams *Darlene H. Smith George C. Springer Jr. Andrea C. Wolfman |
| Thompson & Knight LLP | *Jackie Robinson |
| Venable, LLP | *Claude E. Bailey *JoAnna M. Esty *Tony S. Lee Lisa Tavares |
| Vinson & Elkins LLP | Jeffrey K. Malonson |
| Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP | S. Keenan Carter |
| Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP | Danielle Do Holly Loiseau |
| Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava & MacCuish, LLP | Shiraz D. Tangri |
| Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon LLP | Gina Chang |
| Williams Wilson & Sexton, PA | Stacey McMillian |
| WilmerHale | *Randall Lee |
| Workman Nydegger | Sara Dansie Jones |
| Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP | Michael W. McClain Odell Horton |