Diversity & Inclusiveness:
Right Strategy, Right Now!
Program Summary
SC Bar Convention Feature Program - "Diversity & Inclusiveness: Right Strategy, Right Now!"
Saturday, Jan 24, 2015, 08:30 AM
Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center, Lincoln Street, Columbia, SC
RSVPs are enabled for this event.
Program Agenda
8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m
“Breaking Down the Business Case for Diversity”
Dennis W. Archer (Moderator)
Chairman Emeritus
Dickinson Wright PLLC
Detroit, MI
Cliff L. Bourke, Jr.
Chair, SC Chamber Diversity Council
Director of Legal Services
Southeastern Freight Lines
Columbia SC
Guy Rounsaville, Jr.
Board Member, ABA Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession
Board Member, Coro Center for Civic Leadership Foundation
San Francisco, CA
Jim Odell Stuckey II
Deputy General Counsel
SCANA Corporation
Isvara M.A. Wilson
Senior Vice President and General Counsel
AgFirst Farm Credit Bank
Columbia, SC
10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Break
10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
“Inclusive Intentions: Best Practices to Build and Improve Diversity in the Legal
Profession”
Lauren Stiller Rikleen (Moderator)
Founder, Rikleen Institute for Strategic Leadership
Boston, MA
Cheryl L. Behymer
Co-Chair Affirmative Action Practice Group
Partner
Fisher & Phillips
Columbia, SC
Sidney J. Evering, II
Special Counsel and
Director of Diversity
Parker Poe
Columbia, SC
Kenneth O. C. Imo
Director of Diversity
WilmerHale
Washington DC
Meliah Bowers Jefferson
Member
Wyche Firm P.A.
Greenville, SC
Course Planner:
Pamela J. Roberts
Bowman and Brooke, LLP
Sidney J. Evering II
Kenneth O.C. Imo
Meliah Bowers Jefferson
Dennis W. Archer, Moderator
Chairman, Dickinson Wright PLLC, 2002-2009
Chairman, Board of Directors, Detroit Regional Chamber, 2006-2007
President, American Bar Association, 2003-2004
Mayor of Detroit, 1994-2001
- President, National League of Cities
Associate Justice, Michigan Supreme Court, 1986-1990