ROYAL OAK, Michigan – Chelsea Pasquali, an associate at Brooks Kushman, has been named a Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) Fellow for 2025. The LCLD Fellows Program offers high-potential, mid-career attorneys from diverse backgrounds at LCLD Member organizations the opportunity to develop leadership skills and build meaningful relationships within the legal profession.
Selected by the general counsel and managing partners at LCLD Member corporations and law firms, the LCLD Fellows—practicing attorneys with eight to 15 years of experience—participate in training sessions and are given opportunities to interact with key legal and business leaders of large U.S. corporations and managing partners from the country’s most prestigious law firms.
The LCLD Fellows Program also provides participants with the chance to learn from other legal leaders and experts in the learning and development field. Since its inception, the program has built a reputation for helping to launch participants into top legal positions.
“Since LCLD’s founding in 2009, more than 20,000 legal careers have been impacted through our talent development initiatives,” said Robert J. Grey Jr., President of LCLD. “The Fellows Program has graduated some of the best and brightest attorneys in our nation, and I’m proud to support this year’s participants as they begin their journey with our year-long flagship program.”
LCLD Fellows have distinguished themselves within their organizations by being deeply engaged, indispensable to key clients and teams, invested in attorney mentoring and professional development, and on a trajectory toward leadership positions.
Chelsea is an intellectual property litigation attorney at Brooks Kushman, where she represents Fortune 500 corporations, small businesses, and individuals in complex patent, trademark, trade dress, unfair competition, and copyright disputes. She counsels clients on IP enforcement strategies and has experience representing trademark owners in opposition and cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, as well as litigation in state and federal courts and before the Michigan Court of Appeals. Pasquali earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law and holds a Bachelor of Arts from Eastern Michigan University. She has been recognized by Michigan Lawyers Weekly as an “Up & Coming Lawyer” and by Super Lawyers and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for her professional achievements in intellectual property law.
The Leadership Council on Legal Diversity is an organization of more than 400 corporate chief legal officers and law firm managing partners—the leadership of the profession—who have pledged themselves to creating a truly diverse U.S. legal profession. Our action programs are designed to attract, inspire, and nurture the talent in society and within our organizations, thereby helping a new and more diverse generation of attorneys ascend to positions of leadership. By producing tangible results in our institutions, we work to promote inclusiveness in our
organizations, our circles of influence, and our society, with the ultimate goal of building a more equitable and diverse legal profession. https://www.lcld.com/
About Brooks Kushman P.C.
Founded in 1983, Brooks Kushman P.C. has built a national reputation as a premier intellectual property and technology law firm. We accomplish this with the understanding that the most effective IP solutions come from putting great minds together – our clients and our own. With offices across the country, we forge strong relationships with corporations, small to medium-sized businesses, and leading universities across the country.
Brooks Kushman counts a number of Fortune 100 Corporations across a variety of industries among its clients. Our attorneys have a deep understanding and broad range of experience in a variety of industries and technologies, including consumer electronics, manufacturing, medical device, computer technology, aerospace, chemicals, biotechnology, and retail. We are also recognized by leading legal publications and rankings, including, Best Lawyers, Law360, Intellectual Asset Management, Managing Intellectual Property, and World Trademark Review. For more information, please visit www.BrooksKushman.com.
