Minority Counsel Program
Mystery Networking
As most lawyers know, clients hire lawyers, not law firms.
The ABA Minority Counsel Program ("MCP") helps corporations
get to know the minority lawyers who wish to represent them.
We do this through CLE programs on cutting edge topics of
law, roundtable discussions, workshops, and what has come
to be viewed as the signature event of each MCP meeting: the
Mystery Networking Event. The Mystery Networking Events mix
the corporate and law firm participants into small teams that
compete against each other, and in the process, allow the
corporate counsel to get to know the potential outside counsel
in a way that facilitates opportunities for them to feel comfortable
retaining the services of the outside counsel. Corporate counsel
have the chance to see firsthand what it could be like to
work with a particular lawyer: Does this lawyer have leadership
abilities? Is the lawyer a team player? Does he or she have
creativity? Persistence? Ingenuity? A sense of humor? Is this
someone with whom my company would want to work? To the right are
some glimpses into networking MCP-style.
