Sept. 23rd, 7 am to 9 am, three highly regarded attorneys join Triad West President, Dr. Joel Martin as Panelists for this important Conversation. Meet them and join the Dialog at  Hera Hub, 2111 E. Highland Ave. Suite 240. 

Triad West Inc. is dedicated to creating Diversity and Inclusion in our workforces, workplaces, and communities. It’s for this reason that we present this month’s Monday Morning open to the public Diversity and Inclusion Conversation On Leadership (COL) Breakfast. The environment is inclusive, the conversations dynamic, connections are made, and information is shared so that we can know better, do better, and be better collectively. Meet the three Panelists. Register Here

ATTORNEY DONNA WILLIAMS

The Donna Williams Group

Donna Williams is an attorney and professional mediator licensed to practice law in Nevada, Maryland, and Arizona.  She has been an attorney for over 22 years and a trained mediator for 16 years.  

Donna engages clients through her firm, The Donna Williams Group, helping them manage and resolve conflict around workplace, family and small business disputes. 

Mediation and EEO Investigation Services

She is a contractor with the Arizona Department of Education, providing mediation services, and a federal contractor providing both mediation and EEO investigation services.  Donna has also been a certified University of Phoenix faculty member since 2012, teaching on criminal justice, dispute resolution and ethics topics. Donna regularly gives her time and talent as a volunteer mediator for the Arizona Attorney General’s Office of Civil Rights Division.  

Prior to founding her law practice in 2010, Donna held positions with the Maricopa County Superior Court as a judicial officer and court administrator. In her most recent role, she served as the Court Administrator and General Counsel for Probate Administration.  As an administrator, Donna provided oversight of court processes and the supervision of over 100 professional staff.

Donna has lived in the Phoenix Metro area for over 18 years and has served on several nonprofit boards.  She currently serves on the boards of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Phoenix Metropolitan Chapter and the Children’s Museum of Phoenix.

ATTORNEY LEON SILVER

Managing Partner, Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani’s Phoenix

Leon Silver is the managing partner of Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani’s Phoenix office where he is responsible not only for his legal practice but also for recruiting and hiring.  He is the national leader of the firm’s Retail & Hospitality and Governmental & Administrative Law practice groups.

Deeply committed to Diversity and Inclusion

His commitment to diversity and inclusion is evidenced not only by the variety of backgrounds of the lawyers he’s recruited to his firm but also by his volunteer efforts.  Leon currently serves on the board of directors of “Take the Lead”, a women’s leadership training organization; is the founder and leader of the Liberty Project, a reproductive rights think tank at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at ASU; is a former Board Chair and Trustee of Planned Parenthood Arizona; and former board member of the YWCA of Greater Phoenix. He has been honored by the latter two organizations with their respective lifetime achievement honors; The Peggy Goldwater Award and the Tribute to Leadership Advocacy Award. 

With this background, Leon has expertise in personal privacy and gender equality issues and has lectured and published articles on the importance of inclusion and gender parity in law firms.  The highly regarded “Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession Review” included one of his articles in its 2017 edition: On a Mission to Bring “True Diversity” to the Field of Law; and in 2015 the Huffington Post ran an article titled:  The Evolution of Male-Female Relationships: An Interview with Leon Silver. 

Leon has been recognized as a “Top Ten Commercial Litigator” and one of the “100 Best Lawyers in Arizona.”

ATTORNEY MARIAN YIM

Owner, Yim Law Office, PLLC

Attorney Marian Yim has advocated for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession at the state and national level.  

A Positively Powerful Change Maker  

Marian was the first Asian female to work at the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, the Arizona Supreme Court, and the City of Phoenix Mayor’s Office.  She was Founding President of the Arizona Asian American Bar Association (AAABA), and a charter member of the Arizona State Bar Committee on Women and Minorities. She chaired the education subcommittee on the American Bar Association’s Council on Racial and Ethnic Justice  

In 2014, Marian received the inaugural Senator Daniel K. Inouye Trailblazer Award from the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA). She is also a past recipient of awards for Advancing Equal Opportunity in the Profession and being a Positively Powerful Woman. 

Marian earned her B.A. from Vassar College and J.D. from Cornell Law School. She owns Yim Law Office, PLLC, and counsels nonprofits and minority-owned businesses on grants and asset management. She also volunteers as an advisor to several community organizations, including the Phoenix Civic Improvement Corporation, Asian Corporate and Entrepreneur Leaders (ACEL), and Arizona State University’s President’s Minority Advisory Council.