Dyan Gershman founded Gershman Law, PLLC, in New York in 2014, and continues to serve as the firm’s principal. Building on decades of United States-based and international experience as senior in-house counsel with General Electric and Bristol-Myers Squibb, she manages transactions involving mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and other complex aspects of corporate practice. Dyan Gershman’s involvement in her profession extends to her long-term support of the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice, a project of the New York City Bar Association.
The Vance Center provides pro bono legal representation to civil society, journalism, and human rights organizations around the world, even as it works on initiatives boosting the visibility of public interest law and bringing greater diversity to the legal profession. In early 2023, the center celebrated the entrance of the second cohort of fellows into its South Africa-based mentoring program, Advancing Women in the Workplace (AWW) Project. The project is the result of a collaboration among the Vance Center, its own South African Legal Fellows Alumni Network, and the U.S. Embassy in South Africa. The AWW Project focuses on the professional needs of young women of color hoping to serve in top leadership roles in the legal community in South Africa. Its collaboration-centered events bring together new lawyer mentees and their senior lawyer mentors to share advice, experiences, and self-development strategies. At the second cohort’s April 2023 events, participants enjoyed a virtual discussion on female leadership in the legal profession, as well as a presentation on the century of progress South Africa’s women lawyers have made toward greater equality and equity. South African women leaders in the teaching and practice of law joined the discussion to outline the important role of mentorship and support for young women lawyers at the beginning of their career journeys. The award-winning firm of Bowmans South Africa partnered in launching the AWW second cohort by hosting a hybrid event attended by 80 attorneys. Representatives of the Vance Center’s Africa Sub-Committee also offered further details on its expanding work across the continent through its African Legal Fellows program.
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