January 16, 2025
The Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) has selected associate Nadia Raynes to serve as a 2025 LCLD Fellow and associates Josefina Ayala Wilkins and Emily Abbey to serve as 2025 LCLD Pathfinders.
Nadia Raynes, an associate in the Litigation Department based in New York, is among the class of 2025 LCLD Fellows. The Fellows Program connects high-potential, mid-career attorneys with general counsel and law firm managing partners and provides leadership training and professional development resources. Past LCLD Fellows include Willkie partners Anne Choe, Melanie Medina, Isabel Duman and Ren-How Harn, counsel Emerson Girardeau and associate Kaydene Grinnell.
In addition, Josefina Ayala Wilkins, a New York-based associate in the Finance Department, and Emily Abbey, a Litigation associate based in San Francisco, have been selected as 2025 LCLD Pathfinders. The LCLD Pathfinders Program helps participants develop leadership skills, build professional relationships, and form a successful career-development strategy. Recent Willkie LCLD Pathfinders include associates Camille Grant, Deanna Clugston, Dhananjay Adusumilli, Argemira Flórez, Lani Fu and Bianca Valdez.
The LCLD Fellows and Pathfinders are selected based on nominations from member organizations.
LCLD is an organization of more than 400 corporate chief legal officers and law firm managing partners committed to ensuring that all talent thrives, with the ultimate goal of building a more equitable and diverse legal profession.
In addition to the Fellows and Pathfinders Programs, Willkie participates in the 1L LCLD Scholars Program in partnership with firm clients Comcast, MetLife, Resideo and Corebridge Financial. Chairman Matthew Feldman serves as the firm’s managing partner member of LCLD.
A longstanding member of the LCLD, Willkie has received the organization’s Compass Award six times for its talent development initiatives and commitment to cultivating a more inclusive legal profession.
