Chaffetz Lindsey’s lawyers support a number of charitable, cultural, and educational organizations in New York City and across the world.  We’ve made support of two of these great organizations a firm-wide mission.  We encourage our clients, referral partners, vendors and other friends to learn more about these organizations and to join us in our support of their amazing work.

CAMBA is a Brooklyn-based community service organization that annually helps more than 35,000 New Yorkers in need through programs in six core areas:  Economic Development, Education and Youth Development, Family Support Services, HIV/AIDS Services, Housing Services and Development, and Legal Services.  Chaffetz Lindsey partner Charlie Scibetta serves on CAMBA’s Board of Directors and chairs CAMBA’s Development Committee.  In the coming year, Chaffetz Lindsey will support CAMBA’s 2009 fundraising drive and will help to develop a speaker series to benefit CAMBA’s youth services programs.  For more information on CAMBA, please contact Charlie or visit www.camba.org.

The International Senior Lawyers Project (ISLP) provides volunteer legal services by skilled and experienced attorneys to advance democracy and the rule of law, protect human rights, and promote equitable economic development worldwide. Through the pro bono work of retired and active practitioners, working independently and in law firms, ISLP helps governments and citizens develop and implement legal reforms, assists programs that advance the social and economic well-being of people in developing countries, and builds the capacity of local organizations and professionals to meet the needs of their communities.  Chaffetz Lindsey partner David Lindsey is an ISLP board member.  Chaffetz Lindsey is committed to providing ISLP financial support and assistance in fundraising and volunteer recruiting.   To learn more about the ISLP, please contact David or visit www.islp.org.

Diversity
The people at Chaffetz Lindsey know that diversity in race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender is essential to the health and success of our society and to the health and success of our firm.  Our small starting team is diverse on several measures and manifests both our fundamental openness and our commitment to the diversity principle.  We further commit to make greater diversity a cornerstone of our growth.  We have opened communications with the placement directors of several law schools to attempt to identify minority graduates who may be looking for opportunity with a start-up firm like ours.  We welcome resumes from candidates of all backgrounds who can help us meet this important commitment.

We also support community programs aimed at increasing minority access to opportunities to succeed.  We are currently working on creating a speaker series with CAMBA, a Brooklyn-based community services organization, in which successful members of the community will join together to speak to inner-city students about how to achieve success and about how giving back through community service can help others to succeed as well.