Crowell & Moring Lawyers Named to Leadership Council on Legal Diversity’s 2024 Fellows and Pathfinder Programs

Leadership Council on Legal Diversity has selected Sima Namiri-Kalantari as a member of its 2024 class of Fellows. In addition, associates Roy Abernathy and Ashleigh Kaspari have been named to the LCLD 2024 class of Pathfinders.

LCLD's landmark Fellows and Pathfinder programs are designed for high-potential, mid- and early-career attorneys, respectively, from diverse backgrounds and at LCLD Member organizations. The goal of both programs is to provide participants with practical tools for developing and leveraging internal professional networks, leadership skills, and career development strategies applicable to both in-house and law firm practice. Once completed, the programs boast a national alumni network of 4,000+, offering national, regional, and local opportunities for networking and substantive leadership-development training. 

• Namiri-Kalantari, a LA-based partner in the firm’s Antitrust and Competition Group, serves as a strategic advocate in cases that require a comprehensive legal approach. She has significant experience representing companies in civil litigation related to price fixing, monopolization, market allocation, no-poach allegations, and other issues.
• Abernathy, a Washington, D.C.-based associate in the firm’s Advertising and Brand Protection and Litigation groups, represents clients in complex matters in both federal and arbitral forums. His experience and practice enable him to provide strategic solutions for brand protection counseling, regulatory compliance before the Federal Trade Commission and National Advertising Division, and navigation of related litigation.
• Kaspari, a Denver-based associate in the firm’s Litigation Group, focuses on a wide array of industries, including telecommunications, pharmaceutical, and consumer products. Clients turn to her for counseling and representation in state and federal court in complex commercial business disputes and other litigation matters, as well as in regulatory compliance before state and federal regulatory agencies.

Crowell is a longstanding member of LCLD, through which we have sponsored high-potential and diverse cohorts of partners, counsel, associates, and summer associates in a variety of pipeline programs that have provided leadership training and development opportunities. Ellen Dwyer, a member of Crowell’s Executive Committee and Management Board, is the Immediate Past Chair of LCLD’s Board of Directors. In addition to the Fellows and Pathfinder programs, the firm is a regular participant in LCLD’s 1L Scholars and Success in Law School Mentoring programs.

About The Leadership Council on Legal Diversity

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

About Crowell & Moring LLP

Crowell & Moring is an international law firm with operations in the United States, Europe, MENA, and Asia. Drawing on significant government, business, industry and legal experience, the firm helps clients capitalize on opportunities and provides creative solutions to complex litigation and arbitration, regulatory and policy, and corporate and transactional issues. The firm is consistently recognized for its commitment to pro bono service as well as its programs and initiatives to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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