Three Seyfarth Lawyers Selected for 2025 Leadership Council on Legal Diversity

Seyfarth is excited to announce that three of the firm’s lawyers – Alnisa Bell (Labor & Employment Partner – New York), Melissa Ortega (Labor and Employment Associate – Chicago), and Neeka Hodaie (Corporate Associate - Seattle) have been chosen for the 2025 Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD). Bell will participate in the Fellows program while both Ortega and Hodaie will be in the Pathfinder program.

The LCLD Fellows program offers high-potential, mid-career attorneys at LCLD Member organizations with professional and personal development opportunities as well as leadership training, relationship-building resources and access to other LCLD Members, including managing partners and general counsel, for mentoring and guidance.

The seven-month Pathfinder program provides participants from LCLD Member organizations with the opportunity to learn from top leaders in the legal profession as well as career development experts and is designed to connect and train high-potential, early-career attorneys with foundational leadership skills and relationship-building resources.