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By Brooks Igo
Staff Writer for The Texas Lawbook
(January 30) — Wasif Qureshi, a principal in Fish & Richardson’s Houston office, has been selected as a member of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) Fellows program for 2014, the firm announced earlier this week.
The University of Houston Law Center graduate focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation and is a member of the Fish Diversity Committee and the firm’s Diversity Fellowship Program selection committee. He is the first principal from one of the firm’s Texas offices to participate in the LCLD Fellows program.
Created in 2011, the LCLD Fellows program is a highly structured mentoring program designed to increase diversity at the leadership levels of the nation’s law firms and corporate legal departments. Fellows are selected by their managing partners or general counsels to participate in the year-long learning program that includes conferences, virtual training, peer-group projects and extensive contact with LCLD’s top leadership. There are more than 430 Fellows.
LCLD is made up of the leaders of corporate legal departments and law firms to develop strategies to increase diversity in the legal profession. Its stated goal on its website is to work in partnership to eliminate impediments and provide minorities and women with a full and fair opportunity to perform, succeed and lead.
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