Haynes Boone Partner Raquel Alvarenga has been selected to participate in the Dallas Regional Chamber’s (DRC’s) prestigious Leadership Dallas program. Raquel is a member of the Labor and Employment Practice Group in Haynes Boone’s Dallas office.
Founded in 1975, Leadership Dallas is the DRC’s flagship leadership development program designed to prepare a pipeline of diverse leaders to serve as catalysts and sustainers of positive change for the quality of life in the greater Dallas area. Class members learn through lectures, discussion groups, and a community class project. The curriculum’s topics include education and workforce, public policy, economic mobility, healthcare, criminal justice, and regionalism.
DRC selects individuals for the program based on proven leadership potential within their organization and in the Dallas community.
“Leadership Dallas has long demonstrated a commitment to serving the community, and each member is chosen because they want to create meaningful positive change in Dallas,” said Megan Miers, director of Leadership Programs. “They graduate with the tools needed to effectively lead in our new era of work – with empathy, inclusion, and agility.”
The Class of 2023 includes 55 new members from various companies and organizations.
“I am pleased to have been admitted to the 48th class of Leadership Dallas,” Raquel said. “I look forward to learning alongside some of Dallas’s most impressive up-and-coming leaders.”
Several Haynes Boone lawyers have previously participated in the Leadership Dallas program, including Partners Sakina Foster, Chris Kang and John Turner, Senior Counsel Timothy E. Powers, Counsel Darwin Bruce, and of Counsel Rafael Anchia.
Raquel represents corporate clients in all manner of labor and employment matters, including advising on and negotiating the labor and employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions and other business transactions, and counseling employers on compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations.
She has extensive experience litigating restrictive covenant matters, and cases involving alleged discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, wage-and-hour claims, and breach of contract.
In February, Raquel was selected to participate in the 2022 Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) Fellows program, a yearlong professional development program that mentors the legal industry’s diverse leaders of tomorrow.
In 2021, she was selected to participate in the Dallas Bar Association’s (DBA’s) leadership development program called “WE LEAD: Women Empowered to Lead in the Legal Profession.”
Raquel received the Dallas Hispanic Bar Association’s (DHBA) 2021 La Estrella Award the “La Estrella Award” which is presented to an up-and-coming attorney and member of the DHBA who has given back to the Hispanic and legal communities. She was also included in Texas Super Lawyers Rising Stars directory, Thomson Reuters (2022); D Magazine's, D Magazine Partners, Inc., "Best Lawyers Under 40" (2022); the "Ones to Watch" category of Best Lawyers in America, Woodward/White, Inc. (2021-2022); and Dallas Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 Awards, American City Business Journals (2021).
