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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Strasburger emphasizes professional development by providing associates with valuable training, mentoring and career development. These initiatives are intended to tackle issues that are important to associates on a firm-wide basis, including retention, integration, client networking and business development. Combined with a supportive work environment, the firm's professional development activities are designed to give associates the tools and experience to become exceptional lawyers.

Minority Attorneys Group

Strasburger's Minority Attorneys Group (MAG) is part of a firm-wide commitment to diversity and the development of the firm’s associates. The MAG is designed to identify issues facing minority attorneys, develop professional and business opportunities, cultivate positive relationships and create a supportive environment for the firm's minority attorneys. Each minority associate is paired with a senior member of the firm as a mentor from day one.

Involvement in Minority-Focused Organizations

A number of Strasburger attorneys are active officers and members of legal and business organizations that have an ethnic minority focus, including the Texas Diversity Council, the Texas Minority Corporate Program, the Asian American Bar Association, Collin County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the Dallas Hispanic Bar Association, the Dallas Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the Dallas Urban League, the Greater Dallas Community Relations Commission, the J.L. Turner Legal Association, the John C. Ford Program, the Mexican-American Bar Association, the National Bar Association and the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

Women in Leadership

Strasburger has always been committed to women’s initiatives. The Chair of our Policy Committee, our highest management role has been filled with a female partner since 2005, and she was recently re-elected for another two-year term. We have also added many female attorneys as committee heads and industry team leaders. In 2006, three of eight partnership positions were awarded to female attorneys. In 2006, we again hired two lateral female attorneys. Strasburger also is committed to hiring female attorneys from graduating law school classes. In 2006 we hired three female attorneys from our class of four summer associates.
Strasburger currently has 119 partners, 28 of whom are women. Twelve of those partners are women who have spent more than 10 years with our firm.
Houston Bar Association Gender Initiative – Strasburger signed this initiative in 2005 to support the advancement of diversity in the Houston legal community.
The firm believes that management roles should be filled by the most qualified candidates, regardless of gender. Many of our highest management positions are currently held by women:

Chair of Policy Committee – highest attorney position in firm
Director of Firm Administration – highest staff position in firm
Chief Information Officer
Partner In Charge of Houston Office
Chair of Associate Development Committee
Chair of Diversity & Community Relations Committee
Chair of Minority Attorneys Group
Chair of Income Partner and Counsel Committee
Franchise Group Industry Team Leader
Labor & Employment Industry Team Leader
Antitrust Industry Team Leader
Human Resources Manager
Office Managers for Austin, Collin County, Houston and San Antonio
Recruiting and Professional Development Manager
Support Services Manager
Library Manager

Women’s Initiative Program

To further advance the success of our women attorneys and clients, Strasburger sponsors a formal Women's Initiative Program. This program hosts networking events, training sessions and social activities designed to address issues facing women who practice as in-house counsel and women professionals. The program also fosters relationships among Strasburger's women attorneys and with women clients and prospective clients.