Firm News

Today Wiggin and Dana announced its selection of counsel Anjali Dalal and associates Michael Addison and Jenna Cutler for leadership development with the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity.

Dalal will participate in LCLD’s 2022 Fellows program and Addison and Cutler will participate in the 2022 Pathfinders program. The Fellows and Pathfinders programs fast-tracks the professional development of the legal industry’s diverse, high-potential mid-career and early-career leaders, respectively.

“Anjali, Michael and Jenna have distinguished themselves through client service, cultural engagement and steadfast commitments to greater diversity, equity and inclusion at Wiggin and in the legal profession,” said Tim Diemand, Wiggin and Dana’s Managing Partner. “We’re thrilled to support their career advancement and reaffirm our commitment to advancing representation within our firm and the industry at large.”

“LCLD programming provides rising stars with additional tools for career, leadership and relationship development,” said Jana Simon, Wiggin and Dana’s Chief DEI Officer. “Our work with LCLD supplements our own efforts to ensure diverse talent are offered training development opportunities so that they can continue to thrive at all stages of their careers.”

Wiggin and Dana joined LCLD in 2021 as part of its strategic commitment to making tangible DEI progress across the firm and the legal profession. The firm’s action plan, DEI DRIVE, aims to drive Wiggin and Dana into the top 33 percent of its law firm peer group for diversity in five years, and the top 25 percent in ten years. Other important steps recently taken by Wiggin towards its DEI goals include the creation of a C-level leadership role fully dedicated to addressing DEI, as well as participation in the Mansfield Rule, which aims to boost representation of underrepresented lawyers in law firm leadership.