Leadership Council on Legal Diversity taps three Jones Day lawyers for elite programs
The Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCDL) has named three Jones Day lawyers to its 2026 leadership and mentoring programs.
Patrick (Paddy) Clark, an associate in the Firm's New York Office was selected as an LCLD Fellow. The program provides high-potential, mid-career attorneys with professional and personal development opportunities, leadership training, relationship-building resources, and access to LCLD Members.
In addition, LCLD has named associates Irma Kroneman in Washington and Carol T. Li from the Chicago Office to its 2026 Pathfinders program. Designed for high-potential, early-career attorneys, the year-long Pathfinder program builds leadership skills, fosters meaningful connections, and enhances career development.
Mr. Clark counsels clients on contentious and noncontentious matters, with a particular focus on litigation and regulatory investigations facing the Firm's financial institution clients. His practice focuses on corporate governance and defending financial institutions and their most senior executives and directors in regulatory actions, investigations, and litigation. His experience also includes representing clients in high-stakes, strategic commercial disputes across a range of industry sectors such as technology, energy, consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, and resources.
Ms. Kroneman practices antitrust and competition law and focuses on issues related to merger reviews, government investigations, compliance, and litigation. She has represented clients in a number of industries, including consumer products, technology, defense, aviation, health care, real estate services, and ESG (environmental, social, and governance). She maintains an active pro bono practice involving immigration matters and is a member of the American Bar Association's Section of Antitrust Law.
Ms. Li represents and counsels financial institutions and other companies in a variety of complex commercial litigation matters, arbitration proceedings, and investigations. Her experience includes breach of contract disputes, antitrust litigation, and claims arising under the False Claims Act (FCA). Ms. Li has diverse litigation experience in state and federal courts. Prior to joining Jones Day, she served as a law clerk for Judge Kenneth F. Ripple on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
The Leadership Council on Legal Diversity is an organization of more than four hundred corporate chief legal officers and law firm managing partners who have pledged themselves to creating a truly diverse U.S. legal profession.
