Margaret Brent Award Feature: Paulette Brown

Paulette Brown of Madison, N.J., is partner and the first chief diversity officer of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP. For more than 20 years, she has successfully litigated a variety of employment matters including class actions, sexual harassment, marital status, WARN, race and age discrimination and issues pertaining to FMLA.  Brown also is experienced in all aspects of workplace training and collective bargaining.  She is committed to issues of women and women of color in particular.  She is past president of the Association of Black Women Lawyers of New Jersey and co-authored the nationally acclaimed Commission on Women in the Profession Women of Color Research Initiative study, Visible Invisibility:  Women of Color in Law Firms.  Brown has extensively mentored young women, particularly women of color, by providing them with a safe environment to discuss issues affecting them in their firms.  As past president of the National Bar Association she led a delegation to monitor the first free and democratic elections in South Africa.

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