Dickinson Wright Announces 2025 Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Fellows and Pathfinders
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Dickinson Wright is pleased to announce its 2025 selections for the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (“LCLD”) Fellows and Pathfinders programs. Partner Deborah Germany (Detroit) has been selected as our 2025 LCLD Fellow. Deborah maintains a multidisciplinary practice consisting of banking and finance, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate restructuring. She is experienced in various financing transactions and represents borrowers, banks, middle-market lenders, and non-bank lenders. She also serves as a member of the firm’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee.
Associates Najah Allaham (Detroit) and Lydia Yu (Toronto) have been selected as our 2025 Pathfinders. Najah has years of experience assisting employers obtain employment-based immigrant visas, including PERM labor certifications, EB1, EB2, and EB3 immigrant visas, as well as various non-immigrant employment-based visas, including E-2, L-1, H-1B, H-2B, TN visas. Lydia maintains a broad corporate and commercial practice with a focus on domestic and cross-border public and private company mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, and corporate governance.
LCLD’s flagship Fellows Program engages managing partners of LCLD Member Firms and general counsel of major corporations to create an intensive, year-long leadership training, professional development, and networking program for diverse mid-career attorneys looking to become leaders within their organization. The LCLD Pathfinder Program is designed to provide early-career, high-potential diverse attorneys with practical tools for creating durable internal networks, foundational leadership skills, and career development strategies critical to their professional advancement.
Founded in 2009, LCLD is a national organization of more than 400 corporate chief legal officers and law firm managing partners dedicated to creating a more open and diverse legal profession. Dickinson Wright has been a member of LCLD since 2021. To learn more about LCLD, click here.
Associates Najah Allaham (Detroit) and Lydia Yu (Toronto) have been selected as our 2025 Pathfinders. Najah has years of experience assisting employers obtain employment-based immigrant visas, including PERM labor certifications, EB1, EB2, and EB3 immigrant visas, as well as various non-immigrant employment-based visas, including E-2, L-1, H-1B, H-2B, TN visas. Lydia maintains a broad corporate and commercial practice with a focus on domestic and cross-border public and private company mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, and corporate governance.
LCLD’s flagship Fellows Program engages managing partners of LCLD Member Firms and general counsel of major corporations to create an intensive, year-long leadership training, professional development, and networking program for diverse mid-career attorneys looking to become leaders within their organization. The LCLD Pathfinder Program is designed to provide early-career, high-potential diverse attorneys with practical tools for creating durable internal networks, foundational leadership skills, and career development strategies critical to their professional advancement.
Founded in 2009, LCLD is a national organization of more than 400 corporate chief legal officers and law firm managing partners dedicated to creating a more open and diverse legal profession. Dickinson Wright has been a member of LCLD since 2021. To learn more about LCLD, click here.
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