The LCLD Fellowship Program is an intensive, yearlong professional development program that mentors the legal industry’s diversity leaders of tomorrow. Designed for lawyers with eight-to-fifteen years of experience, the LCLD Fellows Program connects high-potential attorneys with leading general counsel and managing partners.
The LCLD Pathfinders Program, now in its sixth year, is tailored for lawyers with three-to-five years of experience. The program provides practical tools for developing and leveraging professional networks, leadership skills, and career development strategies.
Recently promoted to partner based on her well-earned reputation as a high-performing litigator and data privacy specialist, Lust advises a blue-chip roster of clients on information governance, data compliance, and cross-border transfer issues arising in the US and the world. She has demonstrated a strong commitment to Reed Smith’s diversity, equity, and inclusion objectives, having served in leadership positions in the firm’s Women’s Initiative Network (WINRS) in D.C. and the Asian American business inclusion group. Additionally, Lust has been the global director of the firm’s ReturnRS program for the past six years, which supports all attorneys (men and women) before, during, and after parental or other leave of absence. During this period, Lust helped the firm launch a number of work-life balance policies and expanded employee benefits to cement Reed Smith’s reputation in the industry as a Top 10 Family Friendly Firm among the Vault Law 100. Lust is also an active member of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of DC.
An associate in Reed Smith’s Global Corporate Group, Foster’s practice concentrates on mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, and general corporate matters for private equity funds, their portfolio companies and other public and privately held businesses. Foster has served an important role in the firm’s diversity recruiting efforts, having interviewed diverse law school candidates for Reed Smith’s Summer Associate Program and serving as a mentor in the firm’s Reverse Mentoring Program.
Salazar, an associate in Reed Smith’s Global Regulatory Enforcement practice, focuses on white-collar criminal defense, securities litigation, and helping corporate and individual clients with internal investigations and regulatory compliance and enforcement matters, including under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the False Claims Act, and the Anti-kickback statute. She has demonstrated a passion for diversity, equity, and inclusion by not only being an active member of UNIDOS, the firm’s Hispanic / Latinx business inclusion group and WINRS, but also as an ally member of STAARS, Reed Smith’s Black / African American business inclusion group. Additionally, last year she helped the Chicago office start its Racial Equity Action Task Force and helped coordinate a Chicago office event with Jahmal Cole, local community activist and founder of My Block, My Hood, My City.
Reed Smith is among the original co-founders of the LCLD, which now includes more than 350 members comprising the general counsel of Fortune 500 corporations, along with the managing partners of the nation’s largest law firms. Additional information about the LCLD and the Fellow and Pathfinders programs can be found at www.LCLDnet.org.
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