The New York City Bar Association held its Annual Diversity and Inclusion Celebration Dinner on June 26, honoring the 2019 Diversity and Inclusion Champion Award winners, Juan Arteaga, partner at Crowell & Moring, and Lisa Linsky, partner at McDermott Will & Emery. The award, created in 2006, applauds leaders who have initiated and sustained diversity and inclusion in their organizations.

As his office’s hiring partner, Arteaga helped recruit a number of female and diverse associates and counsel. He has also established a strong partnership between Crowell and Legal Outreach, the non-profit legal education program for students from underserved communities in NYC, and has created a successful speaker series that enables the New York office’ employees to discuss important workplace topics such as unconscious bias.

Lisa Linsky. Photo by Alycia Kravitz