Clifford Chance Art Exhibition Marks Gay Pride and Stonewall Riots Anniversary
NEW YORK, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Clifford Chance is celebrating Gay Pride with a joint art exhibition in its New York and London offices. Following last summer's successful launch of the transatlantic format, an exhibition will again be held with receptions for clients, employees and other honored guests in both cities on Wednesday, June 24, 2009.
Organized by the Firm's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employee networks in New York and London, the exhibition marks the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York, which are generally regarded as the origin of the modern international gay rights movement.
The third annual New York exhibition will showcase historical photographs of the gay rights movement over the past 40 years by photojournalist and activist Bettye Lane. The London exhibition, which is in its second year, will feature the works of seven gay and lesbian artists: Kerry Andrews, Annie Attridge, Roberto Ekholm, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Lucia King, Alana Lake with Fayann Smith, and Stuart Mayes.
"I am delighted that we are able to commemorate such an important moment in the history of the gay rights movement," said Jason Young, head of Clifford Chance's New York LGBT Employees Group. "The exhibits in our New York and London offices truly show the Firm's global commitment to our LGBT employees and the LGBT community in general."
Clifford Chance's LGBT networks were founded with an aim to encourage a culture throughout the Firm where colleagues are happy to be open and out and where role models exist. The networks provide their members, which include attorneys as well as business services staff, with a forum to discuss issues relevant to the LGBT community and the opportunity to meet other LGBT individuals from their respective offices. The networks are engaged in a number of activities including pro bono legal work and sponsorship for the LGBT community and charitable organizations such as the New York City Gay & Lesbian Anti-Violence Project and Lambda Legal, assisting with Clifford Chance's legal recruiting efforts among LGBT law student groups and organizing the Pride Art Exhibition.
Clifford Chance is one of the world's leading law firms, helping clients achieve their goals by combining the highest global standards with local expertise. The firm has unrivalled scale and depth of legal resources across the four key markets of the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, and focuses on the core areas of commercial activity: capital markets; corporate and M&A; finance and banking; real estate; tax; pensions and employment; litigation and dispute resolution. Clifford Chance has 30 offices in 21 countries with 3,800 legal advisers and also operates a 'best friends' arrangement with AZB & Partners in India and a co-operation agreement with Al-Jadaan & Partners Law Firm in Saudi Arabia.
