Reed Smith Announces 2024 Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Fellow, Pathfinders

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Feb. 14 -- Reed Smith, a law firm, issued the following news release on Feb. 12, 2024:

Reed Smith today announced that Anthony Crawford, a New York-based partner in its Insurance Recovery Group, was selected as the firm's Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) Fellow for 2024. Additionally, Jalen Brown, a Chicago-based associate also in the Insurance Recovery Group and Timothy Muyano, a Philadelphia-based associate in the Global Commercial Disputes practice, were named as the firm's 2024 LCLD Pathfinders.

The LCLD Fellowship Program is an intensive, yearlong professional development program that mentors the legal industry's diversity leaders of tomorrow. Designed for lawyers with 8 - to - 15 years of experience, the program connects high-potential attorneys with leading general counsel and managing partners.

The LCLD Pathfinders Program provides early-career lawyers, those with between three - to - seven years of experience, with practical tools for developing and leveraging professional networks, leadership skills, and career development strategies.

A passionate advocate of policyholders who assists them in solving their insurance coverage issues, Crawford serves a wide array of clients ranging from banking and financial institutions to religious organizations. He provides policy review, coverage analysis, counselling and dispute resolution services on a variety of insurance policies, with special emphasis on general liability, directors & officers, errors and omissions (professional liability), commercial property, mortgage, and fine arts policies.

Prior to his legal career, Crawford served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps for more than 11 years, where he was a helicopter pilot and held several positions specializing in project management and operations training.

Brown focuses his practice on representing clients in a wide variety of insurance recovery commercial disputes in both state and federal court. A fifth-year associate and former recipient of Reed Smith's Deborah J. Broyles Diversity Scholar award, Brown is also a member of the Chicago Committee Associate Board, which provides professional development and aims to cultivate the community of minority lawyers in leading law firms through programming and leadership opportunities.

Muyano's practice currently involves representing clients on a wide range of complex litigation matters, including contract disputes, financial services litigation, business and mass torts, consumer protection litigation, injunctive relief, and civil enforcement actions brought by state attorneys general.

Within the firm, Muyano is an active member of PAALS, Reed Smith's Pacific and Asian-American business inclusion group, as well as its Mental Health Task Force. He has also participated in the firm's Reverse Mentoring Program, where mid-level associates, senior associates and counsel are paired with and mentor more senior lawyers, the firm's leadership and significant rainmakers on their experiences as diverse lawyers.

Reed Smith is among the original co-founders of the LCLD, which is made up of more than 400 corporate chief legal officers and law firm managing partners. Additional information about the LCLD and the Fellow and Pathfinders programs can be found on the LCLD website (https://www.lcld.com/).

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