September 4, 2009

Moore Named Member of DirectWomen Board Institute

Lane Powell Shareholder Portia Moore was recently selected as a member of the 2009 DirectWomen Board Institute, a program designed to identify and promote qualified women lawyers to serve on corporate boards of public companies.

The DirectWomen Board Institute is an initiative of the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section and Catalyst, Inc.  It supports accomplished women lawyers for service on U.S. corporate boards, while also promoting the independence and diversity required for good corporate governance.

Moore is a member of Lane Powell’s Labor and Employment group, where she focuses her practice on complex litigation with an emphasis on wrongful termination, and race and sex discrimination claims.  Her additional trial experience includes serving as an Assistant United States Attorney of the Western District between January 1986 and January 1990, during which she carried out all duties of a federal criminal prosecutor, including drafting and presenting criminal indictments to the Federal Grand Jury.