Adams Leclair LLP partner Paul L. Leclair has been named a Colors of Success Leadership Award winner for 2024.

The Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce will honor Paul and 13 additional recipients at a ceremony on September 26th at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center.

The Colors of Success Leadership Award celebrates individuals who have shown outstanding leadership in fostering a sense of belonging, ensuring economic fairness, and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion across a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences in their workplace and the Greater Rochester community.

At the firm, Paul and his colleagues have developed hiring practices that have increased diversity at the firm.  In particular, the number of female attorneys have increased from 33% to 55% since May 2022   and 15% of the firm’s attorneys are professionals of color.

Adams Leclair LLP recently received the Diversity Champion award from the Honorable Roy W. King Legal Diversity Internship program. The firm hired 2022 participant, Ella Humphrey, who will start as an associate in September.  Paul has served as a mentor to several law students in conjunction with the clerkship program and has a long history of mentoring attorneys at the firm. 

Paul has twice received honors from the US District Court for the Western District for his pro bono representation of inmates aggrieved of their 8th Amendment constitutional rights for cruel and unusual punishment, and founded  the  SOLACE program for the Monroe County Bar Association which offers emergency services to local members in crisis. 

Paul has practiced commercial litigation for the past thirty-seven years in Rochester, New York, where he has raised his family with his wife Rebecca.  

See Paul Leclair’s attorney profile for more information.