Firm President Sheryl L. Axelrod is a past President of the Temple Law Alumni Association (TLAA) and serves on its Service Committee. On April 3, 2019, she visited the James G. Blaine School for scholars from pre-K through the 8th grade, with fellow TLAA Service Committee members Judges Sheila Woods-Skipper, Sandra Moss, and Glynnis Hill, […]
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is the world’s largest HR professional society, representing 300,000 members in more than 165 countries. On March 20, 2019, Sheryl trained SHRM professionals on how to level the playing field and create a safe workplace for women and minorities. She spoke at the Philadelphia SHRM Symposium on, “Sensitivity Training, Unconscious Bias, Micro-Aggressions and Creating a
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Firm President Sheryl Axelrod is a past President of the Temple Law Alumni Association (TLAA) and serves on its Service Committee. On April 3, 2019, she visited the James G. Blaine School for scholars from pre-K through the 8th grade, with fellow TLAA Service Committee members Judges Sheila Woods-Skipper, Sandra Moss, and Glynnis Hill, and
Ms. Axelrod’s Work with the Temple Law Alumni Association Sheryl Axelrod served for nearly two decades on the Temple Law Alumni Association. During her tenure with the Temple Law Alumni Association (TLAA), Ms. Axelrod rose to be unanimously elected President of TLAA, the fourth woman to hold the post in its nearly 100-year history. During
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For her work as the Co-President of the Fearless Women Network, a non-profit she co-founded to shatter glass ceilings and obliterate unequal pay, Sheryl Axelrod was recognized by Profiles in Diversity Journal as a “Woman Worth Watching.” You can read the profile here.
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Since the founding of The Axelrod Firm in 2007, we have run The Axelrod Firm and The Salvation Army Holiday Toy Drive, raising toys and toiletries for local children in need and women in shelters. The photo you see shows one of the drives during which Ms. Axelrod got to meet a little girl, Raquel.
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Lisa is Chair of the Board of A Child for All – www.acfacorp.org. Lisa and another Board member, Aissata Thaim, traveled to Annapolis for a fundraiser sponsored by the Annapolis Rotaract which is a Rotary Club service partner for young people ages 18-35. (See photo). During the event, Lisa and Aissata discussed the mission of A
Lisa is chair of the Board of the non-profit A Child for All (ACFA) which brings hope and a future to vulnerable children in Mali, West Africa –www.acfacorp.org. Today, ACFA is home for 12 vulnerable children in Bamako – the capital of Mali. ACFA provides the children with the care and attention they deserve. Before
Firm Partner Lisa Savitt was awarded the American Bar Association Section of International Law Mayre Rasmussen Award for the Advancement of Women in International Law. This award recognizes lawyers who have achieved professional excellence in international law, encouraged women to engage in international law careers and demonstrated a commitment to advancing opportunities for women in
Lisa moderated a panel on Women in Leadership at the American Bar Association Section of International Law Annual Meeting which was held in Washington, DC in April. The numbers of women in leadership roles in law firms as well as in-house has not changed much in decades and the conversation centered around various initiatives that