The Network of Bar Leaders recently presented the Harold Baer Jr. Diversity Award to Taa Grays, second from left, the assistant general counsel and chief of staff at MetLife. Harold Baer was a Southern District judge who championed diversity.

Joining Grays at the ceremony held at Daniel P. Moynihan Federal Courthouse in Manhattan are, from left, Suzanne Baer, Southern District Judge George B. Daniels, who presented Grays with the award, and Queens Supreme Court Justice Bernice Siegal.