National 25th Anniversary Committee

- Hope Adams, PNC Bank
- Charles Berardesco, NERC
- Wes Bizzell, Altria
- Matthew Cook, Fried Frank
- Darek DeFreece, Wells Fargo
- Nicole Dogwill, Shartsis Friese
- Ted Furman, GlaxoSmithKline
- Tristan Higgins, Sony
- Cisselon Nichols Hurd, Shell Oil Company
- Laura Maechtlen, Seyfarth Shaw
- Paul Marchegiani, NBCUniversal
- Matthew Morningstar, Morgan Stanley
- John Olson, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
- Andrea Reister, Covington & Burling
- James Showen, Hogan Lovells
- John Sullivan, Imation (retired)
- David Tsai, Perkins Coie
- Brian Winterfeldt, Steptoe & Johnson
Our Top Sponsors
By becoming a sponsor of the LGBT Bar’s largest event of the year, your organization will have the opportunity to demonstrate its support of LGBT diversity in the legal profession as well as your commitment to the LGBT community. Sponsors have access to a large and diverse forum to showcase company activities and learn about others’ ideas for improving diversity demographics relating to self-identified LGBT attorneys.
Participating Companies
Some of the largest and most successful companies in the world participate in the Lavender Law® Conference. Our corporate sponsors and pool of distinguished corporate counsel speakers have identified Lavender Law as a great way to get their message across: Diversity matters.
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