• The National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL), the leading national voluntary organization devoted to the interests of women lawyers and women's rights, has asked Melba Hughes to participate in its 2009 Mid-Year Meeting.  Melba will moderate one of the five panels, Now That You Have “Made It,” Are You Sure This Is Where You Want To Be? The conference will be held on Thursday, February 5, 2009 in the TWELVE Hotel.

• Congratulations to the Georgia Association for Women Lawyers (GAWL) on its 80 year history of supporting the interests of women lawyers.  Hughes Consultants is proud to support the Mid-Year Meeting, a day long event for women in business on November 18^th at Alston & Bird.  The event will focus on negotiating, diversity, flexibility and other topics important to women in business.



• Nicole Andres joined more than 900 lawyers in the 2008 Run for Justice 5K to raise money for the Atlanta Legal Aid Society.  The event raised $20,000 for the organization.



• Melba Hughes joined thousands of men and women to raise money for Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the National Philanthropic Trust Breast Cancer Fund by walking in the 2008 Atlanta Breast Cancer 3-Day.  Taking place in 14 cities nationwide, the Breast Cancer 3-Day is a series of three day, 60-mile walks that raise millions of dollars for breast cancer research, education, and community outreach programs.



• Melba Hughes has been asked to return to Harvard Law School as a speaker for the 2008 Fall Market Series Program.



• Daily Report quotes Melba Hughes.



• Melba Hughes was quoted in the Fulton County Daily Report.



• hughes CONSULTANTS  was mentioned in The Daily Journal

            Three minority-owned legal recruiting firms have been tapped by the California Minority Counsel Program to provide a more diverse pool of job candidates to law firms and corporations. 
            The California Minority Counsel Program was launched in 1989 and has nearly 300 members, including the Clorox Co., Microsoft and Sony Computer Entertainment America.
      As part of its Diversity Recruiting Initiative, which aims to maximize job prospects for attorneys of color, the program selected the Oakland-based Grisham Group, Hughes Consultants in Atlanta and Chicago's Winston & Green.
           The three recruiting firms will be introduced at the California Minority Counsel Program's 17th annual Business Development Conference, scheduled for Sept. 13-14 at San Francisco's Hotel Nikko.

• hughes CONSULTANTS has been selected by the California Minority Counsel Program as one of three preferred recruitment firms.  CMCP’s mission is to promote diversity among California's attorney population, and thereby advance a more inclusive and just legal profession.