BALTIMORE – Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP has chosen Baltimore partner Katherine A. Lawler to be a member of the 2020 class of Fellows in a program created by the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) to identify, train, and advance the next generation of leaders in the legal profession. The goal of the LCLD Fellows Program is to “produce a generation of attorneys with strong leadership and relationship skills who are committed to fostering diversity within their individual institutions and the profession at large.”

According to LCLD President Robert J. Grey, Jr., the LCLD Fellows Program offers participants “a year-long, in-depth program devoted to relationship-building, in-person training, peer-group projects, and extensive contact with LCLD’s top leadership and the best teachers in the business.”

Lawler concentrates her practice on defending companies in mass tort, personal injury and business matters. She manages local and national trial teams, developing defenses, witnesses and case evaluation strategies. She has been recognized by organizations for her professional and civic work, including being named to the Daily Record’s “Leading Women” and “Very Important Professionals, Successful by 40” as well as the National Association of Professional Women VIP Woman of the Year – Attorneys, Partners and Judges in 2013.

Founded in 2009, LCLD is a growing organization of more than 320 corporate chief legal officers and law firm managing partners who are personally committed to creating a more diverse and inclusive legal profession. The LCLD Fellows Program, which has trained more than a 1,600 mid-career attorneys since 2011, is one of LCLD’s most important initiatives. For more information, visit www.lcldnet.org.

Established in 1897, Nelson Mullins has more than 800 attorneys and government relations professionals with 25 offices in 11 states and Washington, DC. For more information on the firm, go to www.nelsonmullins.com.