Tucker Ellis LLP has named Steven Lauridsen, V. Sathienmars, and DT Amajoyi as members of the 2024 Class of Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD).

Steven has been named to the 2024 Class of LCLD Fellows: high-performing mid-career attorneys with eight to fifteen years of professional legal experience, a career history of strong performance, and identified as being on a trajectory toward leadership positions within the organization. Founded in 2011, the Fellows Program connects attorneys from diverse backgrounds at LCLD Member organizations, providing a year-long professional development program focused on leadership and relationship building. The program gives participants the opportunity to learn from top leaders in the legal profession, as well as experts in the fields of learning and development and executive coaching. Through class meetings, learning experiences, leadership lunches, accountability partner groups, and virtual sessions, the program is designed to help Fellows develop executive presence, self-awareness, and management skills.

V. and DT have been named to the 2024 LCLD Pathfinder Program. Pathfinders are high-performing early-career emerging leaders with three to seven years of practice experience who have distinguished—or have the potential to distinguish—themselves within their organizations. The program gives participants the opportunity to learn from top leaders in the legal profession, as well as experts in the fields of learning and development and executive coaching. Through class meetings, virtual learning sessions, e-learning modules, peer circles, and program facilitators, the program is designed to help Pathfinders develop leadership skills and career development strategies.

LCLD Mission

The Leadership Council On Legal Diversity is an organization of more than 400 corporate chief legal officers and law firm managing partners who have pledged themselves, through the Leaders at the Front initiative and other means, to creating a truly diverse U.S. legal profession. Its action programs are designed to attract, inspire, and nurture the talent in society and within its organizations, thereby helping a new and more diverse generation of attorneys ascend to positions of leadership. By producing tangible results in its institutions, it works to promote inclusiveness in its organizations, circles of influence, and society, with the ultimate goal of building a more equitable and diverse legal profession. For more information, click here.