NEW YORK – Feb. 6, 2025 – Three attorneys at global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP were selected to join the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) Fellows and Pathfinder programs for 2025. New York Shareholder Brandilyn Y. Dumas was named an LCLD 2025 fellow. Atlanta Associate Whitney Bly Edwards and Dallas Associate Gregory Franklin were named LCLD 2025 pathfinders.
The LCLD Fellows Program provides professional and personal development opportunities for talented, midcareer attorneys who have distinguished themeselves at LCLD member organizations. The Pathfinder Program serves a similar purpose for early-career attorneys.
Dumas, a member of the firm’s Real Estate Practice, focuses on commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, financing, joint ventures, development, foreclosures, and restructurings, with respect to a variety of assets, including shopping centers, office buildings, hotels and resorts, multiuse developments, industrial properties, and multifamily developments.
Edwards, a member of the firm’s Labor & Employment Practice, regularly provides due diligence in corporate transactions, including comprehensive workforce and compliance analysis; review of employment-related proceedings and disputes and risk exposure; and restrictive covenant enforceability assessment. She also has experience conducting internal wage and hour and discrimination and retaliation investigations for employers. Her practice also includes drafting employee handbooks, personnel policies, and various employment-related agreements.
Franklin, a member of the firm’s Litigation Practice, focuses on construction and financial services litigation and assists clients with finding practical and efficient ways to approach problems that threaten their businesses.
LCLD has more than 400 corporate chief legal officer and law firm managing partner participants who have dedicated themselves to building a more inclusive legal profession, according to the organization. For more information about LCLD programs, visit www.lcldnet.org.
About Greenberg Traurig’s Diversity Initiative: From its inception, Greenberg Traurig has been committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. Greenberg Traurig is a uniquely empowering and diverse firm built on a foundation of fairness, equality, and authenticity. Through its Social, Racial, and Economic Justice Action Plan, the firm has committed $5 million over five years to help combat systemic racism and support impoverished communities. In addition, the firm’s efforts have been recognized through its achievement of Mansfield Rule Certification Plus from The Diversity Lab, and by local, national, and global publications and organizations including Chambers and Partners. Web: https://www.gtlaw.com/en/general/our-firm/diversity X/Twitter: @GT_Drives.
About Greenberg Traurig: Greenberg Traurig, LLP has more than 2750 attorneys in 49 locations in the United States, Europe and the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia. The firm is a 2024 BTI “Leading Edge Law Firm” for delivering on client expectations for the future and is consistently among the top firms on the Am Law Global 100 and NLJ 500. Greenberg Traurig is Mansfield Rule Certified Plus by The Diversity Lab. The firm is recognized for powering its U.S. offices with 100% renewable energy as certified by the Center for Resource Solutions Green-e® Energy program and is a member of the U.S. EPA’s Green Power Partnership Program. The firm is known for its philanthropic giving, innovation, diversity, and pro bono. Web: www.gtlaw.com.