Companion Jamila S. Mensah has been acknowledged as an Excellent Range Champion by the Houston Business Journal’s 2024 Range in Enterprise Awards.
This honor acknowledges people who’ve proven initiative and dedication to selling variety and inclusion throughout the neighborhood and of their organizations. This yr’s awards acknowledge 29 people throughout quite a lot of industries.
Mensah is an advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion at Norton Rose Fulbright and within the authorized career. She serves as co-chair of the agency’s Racial Equity Council, which works to strategically tackle the retention and promotion of Black attorneys and enterprise companies personnel within the agency. She can be a developmental associate, providing assist and profession improvement steerage to associates on the agency.
Increasing her efforts past the Norton Rose Fulbright, Mensah is a Fellow of the Management Council on Authorized Range, serves on the UT Regulation Houston Steering Committee, beforehand served as President of the Affiliation of Rice College Black Alumni and gives professional bono authorized companies to a number of organizations.
Mensah’s observe covers all areas of employment law, together with discrimination, retaliation and wage and hour points, representing purchasers in federal and state court docket and earlier than administrative our bodies such because the Equal Employment Alternative Fee, the Division of Labor and the Occupational Well being and Security Administration.
The 2024 honorees can be acknowledged on the Houston Enterprise Journal’s Range in Enterprise Awards luncheon in March, and featured within the March 29 weekly version of the publication.
Launched in 2017, the Houston Enterprise Journal‘s Range in Enterprise Awards program acknowledges “people and corporations who’ve proven distinctive dedication to selling practices that advance variety and inclusion within the office and in enterprise management and who bolster equality throughout all areas of variety; together with age, incapacity, gender, sexual orientation, race and faith.”
