In February 2019, Firm President Sheryl L. Axelrod and Firm Partner Lisa J. Savitt attended the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF) Driving Diversity & Leadership Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana.  There, they met with fellow NAMWOLF law firm members and supportive in-house counsel, attended numerous CLEs, presentations and receptions, and participated in their respective Practice Area Committee (PAC) events. As co-chair of the International PAC, Lisa helped organize a CLE about how to investigate an international scandal and the pitfalls to avoid creating another one.  See the photos below highlighting a few of these special moments.

Lisa was asked by Law360 to write an article about the March 26, 2019 U.S. Supreme Court decision Republic of Sudan v. Harrison, et al., which deals with the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and the attempt by victims of the bombing of the USS Cole to enforce a judgment of $314 million against the Republic of Sudan.  The article was published on March 29, 2019.

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is the world’s largest HR professional society, representing 300,000 members in more than 165 countries. On March 20, 2019, Sheryl trained SHRM professionals on how to level the playing field and create a safe workplace for women and minorities. She spoke at the Philadelphia SHRM Symposium on, “Sensitivity Training, Unconscious Bias, Micro-Aggressions and Creating a Safe Workplace” as both a stand alone speaker (pictured) and a panelist (pictured) to a large, diverse, and wonderful audience that engaged her fellow speakers in conversation.

The Fox School of Business at Temple University Human Resource Management sponsored the March 20, 2019 diversity panel. Sheryl and two of her fellow panelists are Temple (Law School) graduates.

Shark Tank's Daymond John (pictured) spoke at the same conference the following morning. 

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In December 2018, Lisa traveled to Mali, West Africa in her role as Chair of the Board of the non-profit A Child for All (www.acfacorp.org) which helps vulnerable children in Mali. Twelve vulnerable children now live in the Bamako home of the founder. These children were living on the streets of Bamako before they came to ACFA in 2010 and 2011. These children are now attending school, playing sports and no longer have to worry where their next meal will come from. In the photo, Lisa, fellow Board member Marley Leitner and founder Kadiatou Sidibe pose with the children in their home. While in Bamako, Lisa also met with local donors and prospective donors, met with ministers of the government including the Prime Minister (see attached news article) and also visited the property that ACFA owns in Zorokoro where ACFA is building a complex to take another 100 vulnerable children. As there are no schools or health clinics around that area, the ACFA complex will also have a school, medical clinic, sports complex and library, which will be available not only to the 100 children who will live in the dormitories, but also to the people in the surrounding seven villages. A photo with Lisa, Marley and Kadiatou in front of the first dorm is shown and the other photo shows them with the children at the Bamako home.