The Diversity Counsel Program gives you guidance for making your practice, your firm, and even your community a more welcoming, all-encompassing place. Hear practical, straightforward advice from judges and lawyers as they share their strategies for becoming more diverse and inclusive.
The State Bar of Wisconsin’s overarching goal is to model diversity and inclusion across the organization. This multifaceted approach drives the work of our activities within State Bar leadership, management and staff; internally at the operational level; in our content, communications and programming; and externally in our outreach and community partnerships. This Action Plan was presented and unanimously approved by the Board of Governors, for implementation to begin July 1, 2019.
Local Bar Associations
The purposes of the Association for Women Lawyers are: to promote the welfare, interests and professional development of lawyers who are women, to promote the legal interests of women generally, to maintain the honor and integrity of the legal profession, and to advance justice for all individuals.
Drawing inspiration from suffragette badges of the early-20th century, our mark is meant to evoke solidarity, strength, and equity. The botanical imagery depicted in the badge is of the trillium, a plant native to Wisconsin.
The National LGBTQ+ Bar Association is a national association of lawyers, judges and other legal professionals, law students, activists, and affiliated lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender legal organizations. The LGBTQ+ Bar promotes justice in and through the legal profession for the LGBTQ+ community in all its diversity.
The Wisconsin Asian American Bar Association (WAABA) is committed to fostering friendships and business relationships among members of the Wisconsin State Bar who are committed to advancing the interests of the Asian American community. We are a source of support for our members and strive to promote diversity, justice, and access to all in the legal system.
Building excellence through conscious and consistent dedication to Wisconsin's African American Legal Professionals.
The purposes of the Wisconsin Hispanic Lawyers Association shall be to advance the professional development of its members, to advise on issues of interest to the Hispanic community on a local and national level, and to carry on such other purposes as set forth from time to time in its Articles of Incorporation and its By-laws.
Wisconsin (WLN) is a voluntary, non-profit membership organization whose purpose is to promote the professional and personal development of women lawyers, while upholding the honor and integrity of the legal profession.