The American Bar Association is hosting a Diversity Summit with Honorable co-chair Cruz Reynoso. – can be followed via Twitter

The ABA is hosting a Diversity Summit that begins today and goes throughout the weekend.

We have national legal experts coming in from across the country, including the following confirmed participants:

• Congressman G. K. Butterfield of North Carolina
• Weldon H. Latham, senior partner and chair of the Corporate Diversity Counseling Group for the law firm of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Washington, D.C.
• Cruz Reynoso, former justice of the California Supreme Court and professor emeritus at the University of California Davis School of Law
• John C. Brittain, Chief Counsel, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
• Juanita Hernandez, Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
• Hon. Ming W. Chin, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of California
• Inside counsels from All State Insurance, Coca-Cola, GlaxoSmithKline, Wal-Mart

The Diversity Summit is starting this morning and we have a blogger who is liveblogging and tweeting from the event. Daniel A. Schwartz of Pullman and Comley, LLC in Connecticut is the author of the Connecticut Employment Law Blog, where he covers new and noteworthy developments in the field of labor and employment law.

He’ll be tweeting and blogging from the ABA’s Diversity Summit throughout the day! Right now he’s covering the opening speech by Kareem Dale, Special Assistant to President Obama for Disability Policy.

• Dan’s Blog: www.ctemploymentlawblog.com/
• Dan’s Live Twitter Feed: twitter.com/danielschwartz
• The Chicago Sun Times on Kareem Dale: blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2009/02/chicagoan_kareem_dale_tapped_b.html
• Press Release: www.abanet.org/abanet/media/release/news_release.cfm?releaseid=665
• Diversity Summit Website: www.abanet.org/diversity/summit/home.html

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