
Counsel Spotlight
We invite legal departments, press, and conference organizers to expand their network of law firm partners.
The Counsel Spotlight focuses on equal treatment, equal opportunity, and equal access.
Connect with Talented Partners from Mansfield Firms for Speaking Opportunities, Press Quotes, and Outside Counsel Support
Diversity Lab designed Counsel Spotlight in collaboration with law firms and legal departments. It provides a convenient and accessible way for in-house counsel, press, and conference organizers to quickly find the expertise they require from partners at Mansfield firms.
Impact Highlights
470+
unique individual log-ins by legal department leaders and others since the launch of Counsel Spotlight.
150+
different companies have used Counsel Spotlight to search for and locate outside counsel.
1,000+
partners from more than 200 firms are profiled in Counsel Spotlight
Purpose
Unequal access to career advancement opportunities is often cited as one of the top reasons lawyers leave law firms. Counsel Spotlight was created to expand career-enhancing opportunities for partners at Mansfield firms—firms working hard to ensure that all lawyers have a fair and equal opportunity to advance into leadership. Counsel Spotlight highlights partners of all backgrounds, including first-generation college graduates, increasing their visibility and facilitating new connections with in-house counsel, press, and conference organizers.
Proof
Over 470 in-house counsel from 150+ companies have already used Counsel Spotlight to expand and diversify their outside counsel network. With 1,100+ partners profiled across 40+ practice areas in the U.S. and Canada, Counsel Spotlight makes finding exceptional outside counsel effortless.
Process
Step 1
- Visit Counsel Spotlight.
- Use your email address to gain access.

Step 2
- Search by practice, location, licenses, firm, and more, to find hundreds of partners with a focus in 40+ areas of law, including IP, employment, and antitrust, in the U.S. and Canada.

- Adams and Reese
- ArentFox Schiff
- Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider
- Baker Botts
- Barack Ferrazzano Kirshbaum & Nagelberg
- Beveridge & Diamond
- Bilzin Sumberg
- Boies Schiller Flexner
- Bradley Arant Boult Cummings
- Bressler, Amery & Ross
- Brown & James
- Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck
- Burr & Forman
- Chamberlain Hrdlicka White Williams & Aughtry
- Connell Foley
- Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman
- Davis Wright Tremaine
- Dentons
- Dinsmore & Shohl
- Dority & Manning
- Dykema
- Finn Dixon & Herling
- Fisher Phillips
- Foley Mansfield
- Foster Garvey
- Fox Rothschild
- Franklin & Prokopik
- Frantz Ward
- Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
- Frost Brown Todd
- Gibbons
- Glenn Agre Bergman & Fuentes
- Goulston & Storrs
- Gowling WLG
- Greenberg Traurig
- Hall & Evans
- Hanson Bridgett
- Harness IP
- Haug Partners
- Haynes Boone
- Heidell, Pittoni, Murphy & Bach
- Holland & Hart
- Holland & Knight
- Honigman
- Hooper, Lundy & Bookman
- HWG
- Jenner & Block
- Katten Muchin Rosenman
- Kean Miller
- Keating Muething & Klekamp
- Keller and Heckman
- Klarquist Sparkman
- Klinedinst
- Koley Jessen
- Lathrop GPM
- Levenfeld Pearlstein
- Marshall Gerstein
- Martin Clearwater & Bell
- Maslon
- Mayer Brown
- McDermott Will & Emery
- McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff
- Messner Reeves
- MG+M The Law Firm
- Miller Nash
- Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
- Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr
- Nelson Mullins
- Nixon Peabody
- Norton Rose Fulbright
- Nutter, McClennen & Fish
- Ogletree Deakins
- Orrick
- Parker Hudson
- Polsinelli
- Porzio, Bromberg & Newman
- Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch
- Reed Smith
- Reilly McDevitt and Henrich
- Robinson+Cole
- Roig Lawyers
- Sands Anderson
- Spencer Fane
- Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
- Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox
- Stinson
- Stoel Rives
- Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young
- Sullivan & Cromwell
- The Cook Group
- Thompson Coburn
- Tucker Ellis
- Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease
- Warner Norcross + Judd
- Wilkinson Barker Knauer
- WilmerHale
- Womble Bond Dickinson