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Lawyers For One America

Executive Diversity Recruiters                   

West Coast Specialist

Anna Marie Armstrong

Mestel & Company

Anna Marie Armstrong was recruited to join Mestel & Company to focus her practice on the placement of law firm partners in the Silicon Valley and San Francisco markets. She brings to Mestel & Company 12 years of legal search experience. Prior to joining the company, Anna was a Senior Consultant in the Partner & General Counsel Division of Mlegal Consulting and a Managing Director and Head of the Diversity Task Force at Major, Lindsey & Africa. Anna also ran her own legal search firm, Ascend Attorney Search Consultants.

Anna is a graduate of Brown University and the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, where she was a member of the California Law Review. Anna clerked for the Honorable Earl B. Gilliam on the United States District Court for the Southern District of California and was a litigation associate at Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin. In between college and law school, Anna was a legal assistant in Morrison & Foerster’s Palo Alto office. Anna was born in San Francisco and grew up in Palo Alto where she attended public schools.

Anna frequently speaks on topics related to the legal profession including diversity recruiting and retention, the Bay Area legal market and the in-house market. Anna has been invited to speak at many law schools including Boalt, Harvard, Hastings, Stanford, Santa Clara and the University of San Francisco.

Mestel & Company
555 California Street, 3rd Floor

San Francisco, CA 94104
Tel (415) 568-2315

Cell (415) 819-7010
Fax (415) 568-2318

For more information, please call (415) 479-3645 or e-mail lfoa@lfoa.org.

 

     

 

 

 

 

 

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East Coast Specialist
 
Edna Messick
 
E M Messick Consulting, Inc.

Edna M. Messick is the president and founder of E M Messick Consulting, Inc., a multi-service executive recruiting and consulting firm specializing in the placement of attorneys of color and diverse backgrounds at law firms and corporate legal departments worldwide. The firm also provides diversity consulting services to assist firms in identifying, attracting, recruiting and retaining attorneys of color, through assessing designing and implementing effective internal diversity programs.  

Ms Messick was formerly the Managing Director and Associate Publisher of American Lawyer Media’s Diversity Publishing Group and Law Firm Practice Development Director of the New York Law Journal where she produced such publications as the National Directory of Minority Attorneys and the Minority Law Journal.  She also serves as a Trustee of Lawyers for One America and was a collaborator in its Report to the President of the United States on the Status of Color and Pro Bono Services in the Legal Profession: Bar None. 

E M Messick Consulting, Inc.
444 Washington Blvd
Jersey City, New Jersey 07310

Phone: 201-386-9484

FAX: 253-660-2326

For more information, please call (415) 479-3645 or e-mail lfoa@lfoa.org.