5/19/2009
As part of its ongoing diversity initiatives, Warner Norcross & Judd LLP has selected a book on deaf culture for the second in its popular One Book, One Firm series.
The firm, which has more than 210 attorneys in six offices across the state, will read Hands of My Father, the story of a hearing child who served as the go-between for his deaf parents and the hearing world. Participants will join in a special lunch-and-learn program on Monday, June 1, led by John McKendry, a Warner Norcross partner who is also the hearing child of deaf parents and Katie Prins, executive director of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services, who is the deaf child of hearing parents.
This is the second year for the popular program, which encourages everyone at Warner Norcross to read the same book to create a common experience that serves as the basis firm-wide discussion. In 2008, the firm read Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, a memoir a Michigan author about her experience as a Vietnamese girl growing up in Michigan.
The One Book, One Firm initiative was one of the programs that earned Warner Norcross recognition by Crain’s Detroit Business in its annual Diversity Awards competition earlier this year. The Firm also received the Diversity Visionary Award from the Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce.
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