5/19/2009 - Haskell Slaughter’s Watters Named as ABA Young Lawyers Division Assistant Diversity Director (Press Release)
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HASKELL SLAUGHTER'S WATTERS NAMED AS ABA
YOUNG LAWYERS DIVISION ASSISTANT DIVERSITY DIRECTOR
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - May 19, 2009 - Latanishia D. Watters, an attorney with Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker, LLC, has been named as Assistant Diversity Director of the American Bar Association's Young Lawyers Division for 2009 - 2010. The ABA Young Lawyers Division's Diversity Team, led by a director and two assistant directors, promotes full and equal participation in the Young Lawyers Division for a membership inclusive of lawyers of varying racial, gender, ethnic, national and sexual orientation backgrounds, and of lawyers with disabilities.
The ABA Young Lawyers Division's mission is to further the ABA's goals and purposes, and thereby to serve the community and the legal profession; to represent young lawyers in the ABA, and to represent the ABA to young lawyers; to help shape the policies and priorities that affect young lawyers and the legal culture in which they practice; and to create a deliberative forum for the exchange and expression of young lawyers' views, and a voice to advocate those views. For more information, visit www.abanet.org/yld/home.html.
ABOUT LATANISHIA D. WATTERS
Latanishia Watters maintains a diversified commercial litigation practice, focusing on tort and insurance defense and other complex civil litigation. She has represented insureds, insurers and business entities in a wide variety of tort litigation, as well as securities fraud litigation, broker-dealer litigation and arbitration, and bankruptcy proceedings and related creditors' rights claims. Active in bar association and community service affairs, Ms. Watters served in 2008 as President of the Magic City Bar Association and currently serves as Chair of the Birmingham Bar Association Continuing Legal Education Committee and Alabama/Georgia District Representative to the Young Lawyers Division of the American Bar Association, among her many professional activities. Ms. Watters is a cum laude graduate of Millsaps College and holds an M.B.A. degree from Samford University and a J.D. from Cumberland School of Law. She was named as a 2007-2008 Minorities in the Profession Scholar by the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division and as a 2008 - 2009 TIPS NOW! Fellow by the Tort, Trial and Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association. Ms. Watters also serves on the Girls, Inc. Committee of 25, and the American Cancer Society Board of Ambassadors. She was recently named as one of "Birmingham's Most Influential" in the second edition of Who's Who In Black BirminghamTM, published by Briscoe Media Group, LLC.
ABOUT HASKELL SLAUGHTER YOUNG & REDIKER, LLC
With offices in Birmingham and Montgomery, Alabama, Atlanta and New York City, Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker, LLC provides a full range of professional legal services to local, regional and national clients. The firm provides sophisticated advice and representation to clients in Alabama and across the country through its transactional and litigation practice groups.
For more information on Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker, LLC, please visit http://www.hsy.com/. To speak with Latanishia Watters, please contact Ruwena Healy at 205.655.0783.
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