Through the sponsorship of law-related groups and events, we provide vital support to those who have made diversifying the legal world their central goal. These partnerships enable us to build lasting relationships with minority and female students and student groups while also sharing our own expertise during sponsored events and discussions. 

• National Sponsor of Lambda Legal Education and Defense Fund.

• The official sponsor of the National Black Law Students' Frederick Douglass National Moot Court Competition to be held in Denver, CO, March 30 - April 2.

• National sponsor of Minority Corporate Counsel Association and participated in their cross-gender and cross-mentoring study.

• Mayer Brown's Chicago office is a member of Chicago United, a corporate member organization that brings together business leaders of various races and ethnicities to improve business race relations in the City of Chicago.

• Financial sponsors of law school affinity groups at the University of Michigan, the University of Illinois, the University of Chicago, Stanford University, Northwestern University, Columbia University, Fordham University, and Harvard University.

• Association of the Bar of the City of New York (ABCNY) Minority Fellowship Program, through which we hire a minority first-year law student from a New York City law school as part of our summer associate program.

• The Asian University for Women in Bangladesh. This program is for women of diverse backgrounds throughout Asia, with a special emphasis on poor, rural and refugee women.

• The "N.Y. Cares" Winter Benefit and Summer Program for underprivileged children.

• Silver sponsor of the Texas Diversity Council

Some examples of the organizations and events to which the Firm has donated are as follows:

• Ricky Byrdsong Foundation Annual Race Against Hate

• Puerto Rican Bar Association 

• Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund

• Illinois Humanities Council - Programming of Brown v. Board of Education Series

• Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund

• Women's Bar Foundation

• Hispanic Lawyers Scholarship Fund of Illinois

• Black Women Lawyers' Association of Greater Chicago

• Asian American Legal Resource Center

• Funded a Harvard Law School student's trip to Botswana as part of the Harvard Black Law Student Association (HBLSA) Africa Summit

• Annually fund a fellowship for a public interest project through Legal Aid focused on addressing the legal issues of battered women and immigrant women

• Leadership Circle Sponsor of Access Living Annual Gala, an organization which advocates for disability rights

• Dominican Bar Association

• Hispanic National Bar Association

• Bronx Charter School for the Arts