CRAVATH SWAINE AND MOORE LLP
Vision:
Cravath has been known as one of the premier U.S. law
firms for two centuries. Each of our practice areas is highly regarded, and our
lawyers are recognized around the world for their commitment to the
representation of our clients’ interests. Throughout our history, we have
played a central role in developing how law is practiced, how lawyers are
trained and how business risk is managed. We are not, and do not strive to be,
the largest law firm measured by number of offices or lawyers. Our goal is to
be the firm of choice for clients with respect to their most challenging legal
issues, most significant business transactions and most critical disputes.
At Cravath, we hire only the top students from the
nation’s finest law schools, we train our associates through a rigorous
rotation of practices, we elevate partners exclusively from within and we
compensate partners in a lockstep system throughout their careers. The Cravath
model has been adopted by many prominent law firms and consulting firms. While
some firms have abandoned the model over time to promote lateral growth and
global expansion, we have not. Consistent with our traditional focus on long‑term relationships with our
clients, we seek always to provide excellence in client service, without regard
to short‑term profit. We believe that
maintaining a true partnership of the most talented and broadly trained lawyers
is the most effective manner of handling our clients’ legal issues, business transactions and
disputes.
Paul Cravath
The Cravath System
Each Cravath client is served by lawyers steeped in the
distinctive traditions and environment of the Cravath System. The hiring,
training, compensation and promotion of our lawyers all share a common source
and serve the same goal—the efficient and effective representation of our
clients’ interests.
Diversity at Cravath
Consistent with our long-held view that excellence and
creativity arise from many sources, diversity is a bedrock principle at
Cravath. ‘‘There is no Cravath
‘type’. Yet all share important qualities—intelligence, creativity, work ethic
and a desire to excel.’’
Cravath has helped shape, and continues to influence, the
world’s business, political, and economic landscapes.
History
For 200 years, our Firm has been handling the most
challenging assignments for the most interesting clients. Throughout our
history, we have served our clients by delivering consistently high-quality
services.
Our Practices
Quality is the hallmark of our practice. Each of our
practice areas is regarded as among the finest in the world.
Our Lawyers
Our lawyers embrace challenge and practice law with the
commitment that has built and sustained our singular reputation for two
centuries.
Pro Bono
Cravath has a long-standing commitment to pro bono work.
The full resources of the Firm are brought to bear in support of every pro bono
matter.
LATHAM and WATKINS LLP
Vision:
Latham is dedicated to working with clients to help them
achieve their business goals and overcome legal challenges anywhere in the
world. From a global platform spanning 14 countries, Latham lawyers help
clients succeed.
Devoted to Client Service
Latham is committed to helping clients achieve their
business strategies and providing outstanding legal services around the world.
Clients depend on the firm to find innovative solutions to complex business
issues, and Latham lawyers leverage the firm’s global platform to help clients
handle these challenges.
Latham is a single, integrated partnership focused on
providing the most collaborative approach to client service. The firm offers:
Deep experience
in successful enterprise-transforming transactions and in defending
bet-the-company controversies
A
solutions-based approach, providing innovative and sound commercial advice
Optimally sized
teams that provide cost-effective and high-quality services
A culture
geared toward establishing and nurturing long-term client relationships
The People
More than 2,700
lawyers across a global platform spanning 14 countries; Latham lawyers speak
more than 60 languages
The Practice
Truly a
“one-firm” firm – Latham has no headquarters, and firm management is spread
throughout the world, allowing Latham to service clients with the best-suited
teams regardless of location
More than 60
international practice groups and industry teams
Commitment to Pro Bono and Community Service
Latham lawyers
and professional staff performed approximately 245,000 hours of pro bono work
in 2018 and more than 3.5 million hours between 2000-2018, valued at
approximately US$1.6 billion
Signatory to
Pro Bono Institute's global Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge
Women Enriching Business (WEB)
Our women's
initiative promotes business relationships among women and invests in the
long-term success of our women lawyers
WEB has held
more than 300 successful events throughout the United States, Europe, the Middle
East and Asia
Latham Sustainability
Latham's global
program seeks to reduce its environmental impact, conserve natural resources
and energy, and operate in a sustainable and cost-effective manner
Vendor Code of Conduct
Our Vendor Code
of Conduct helps ensure that the companies and individuals supplying goods or
services to our firm uphold sustainable and ethical practices to the fullest
extent permitted by law.
Latham & Watkins is committed to supporting the
long-term sustainability of the environment. As a global law firm, we approach
this responsibility in multiple ways, including environmental stewardship and
minimizing the impact of our operations around the world. Sustainability is an
ever-evolving discipline and one in which we continue to seek solutions for our
firm, our clients, and our communities.
The primary goals of Latham Sustainability are to
conserve natural resources and energy, decrease our global carbon footprint,
and operate in a sustainable and cost-effective manner.
Greening the Enterprise Globally
As a member of the Law Firm Sustainability Network, we
are committed to measuring our environmental impact and implementing best
practices firm-wide. We have embarked on programs in all offices to reduce,
recycle, and compost all waste to the extent feasible, and we are conducting
energy efficiency audits with a view to reducing our energy consumption.
Making an Impact Locally
Latham’s offices have developed a variety of grassroots
environmental initiatives. These range from trash cleanup events to using
reusable dining products to recycling and composting programs. Fifteen offices
hold a LEED or similar green certification. Eleven offices have EV charging
stations and 16 offices offer bicycle racks to encourage more earth-friendly
commuting practices.
Vendor Code of Conduct
Our Vendor Code of Conduct helps ensure that the
companies and individuals supplying goods or services to our firm uphold
sustainable and ethical practices to the fullest extent permitted by law. Our
sustainability philosophy includes environmental stewardship and minimizing the
impact of Latham’s own operations, and we expect the firm’s vendors to work with
us to achieve these objectives around the globe.
Pro Bono Efforts
Undertaking pro bono work is a major component of our
firm’s culture. We are proud to donate free legal services to an array of
individuals and organizations around the world who are acting to protect the
environment.
Latham & Watkins has a long-standing commitment to
providing pro bono legal services, financial support, and volunteer time to
those most in need within our communities.
Latham's dedication to pro bono work is a source of pride
and reflects a fundamental part of the firm’s culture. Each year, our lawyers
and professional staff take on matters in nearly every area of public interest
law, including veterans’ rights, asylum and immigration, domestic violence,
Holocaust reparations, anti-human trafficking, prisoners’ rights, microfinance
and social entrepreneurialism, children and civil rights.
Why We Do Pro Bono
Latham volunteers thousands of hours of time and
expertise to help those who might otherwise be denied access to the legal
system.
As a signatory
to the Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge™, Latham has committed to provide, at
minimum, the equivalent of 60 hours per US lawyer per year in pro bono legal
services. The firm has surpassed this goal every year since making the commitment.
Between
2000–2018, Latham provided more than 3.5 million pro bono hours in free legal
services to underserved individuals and families and the nonprofit sector
valued at approximately US$1.6 billion.
We treat our pro bono work the same as commercial work,
applying the same quality standards and treating associate pro bono hours the
same as commercial billable hours for purposes of evaluation and bonuses. There
is no cap on pro bono hours.
SKADDEN ARPS SLATE MEAGHER and FLOM LLP and AFFILIATES
Vision:
With 22 offices, approximately 1,700 attorneys and
50-plus practice areas, Skadden advises businesses, financial institutions and
governmental entities around the world on their most complex, high-profile
matters, providing the guidance they need to compete in today’s business
environment.
Firm History
Founded by Marshall Skadden, Les Arps and John Slate on
April Fools’ Day in 1948, Skadden began as a scrappy upstart among a sea of
established “white shoe” law firms in New York. Joe Flom was hired as the
firm’s first associate later that year, and litigator Bill Meagher, the fifth
partner to lend his name to the firm’s letterhead as it appears today, joined
in 1959.
Our first two decades were marked by slow and steady
growth of our client base as we set out to establish ourselves as the go-to
firm for our clients’ most complex legal problems. Our willingness to handle
proxy fights in the 1950s and early 1960s — matters deemed “ungentlemanly” by
white shoe firms — positioned us to ultimately become the firm of choice for
the hostile takeovers that dominated the M&A landscape beginning in the
1970s.
Recognizing the value of providing full-service advice to
clients, from day one we sought to develop a range of complementary practices,
like litigation, tax and antitrust. Client needs led us to open offices in
other cities beginning in 1973, and the volume of work we were handling fueled
exponential growth in the number of attorneys at the firm in the 1980s. That
growth included a significant expansion of the practices we offered to clients,
including restructuring, finance, real estate, mass torts and securities
litigation, as well as the opening of offices in Europe and Asia.
In the nearly three decades since, we’ve built on that
platform to provide advice to clients around the world on their most important
matters. Our core values reflect the ideals of our history, and we remain
committed to providing excellent lawyering and unrivaled client service in all
our work.
Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our success as
a global law firm, giving us a wealth of different perspectives from which to
address our clients’ most pressing issues across a wide spectrum of industries,
geographies and cultures. We strive to develop initiatives at Skadden to
specifically address diversity and inclusion goals — including for recruiting,
professional development, attorney retention and advancement, and
cross-cultural awareness — while also continually inculcating inclusion
principles into the fabric of the firm.
This infrastructure includes our global and local
Diversity & Inclusion Committees and women’s initiative; the unwavering,
visible imprimatur of firm leadership; full-time administrative staff; and
mechanisms for input and feedback from our personnel. Most importantly, our
diversity and inclusion efforts help foster a community at Skadden that is built
on the idea that similarities and differences are a source of our strength.
Diversity and Inclusion
Recognizing that excellence and diversity are
inextricably intertwined, Skadden seeks to recruit, retain and promote a
diverse group of attorneys and staff throughout the firm.
Diversity & Inclusion Leadership
Skadden’s diversity and inclusion efforts are
far-reaching within the firm. Three partners co-chair our global D&I
initiative and work closely with local office Diversity & Inclusion
Committees, our global women's initiative committee and administrative professionals
to develop and sustain recruitment, development and retention strategies
intended to increase diversity at all levels of the firm and foster an
inclusive workplace culture.
Skadden maintains local Diversity & Inclusion
Committees in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong and Tokyo), Europe (London and Brussels)
and the U.S. (Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto,
Washington, D.C. and Wilmington).
Recognition
For the ninth
time in 10 years, named one of the "Best Places to Work for LGBT
Equality" by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and received a 100
percent on the 2018 Corporate Equality Index.
Visa has
selected Skadden as a 2017 "All Star Firm" for exemplifying the
company's values of "high-quality work, responsiveness and commitment to
diversity."
Named to the
ALB 2016 Diversity List, Asian Legal Business' list of 10 law firms in Asia
that are promoting a more inclusive workplace.
In 2019,
received the Women in Law Empowerment Forum's Gold Standard Certification for
the ninth consecutive year, awarded to "law firms that have integrated
women into the highest leadership positions in the firm."
Cited by The
American Lawyer in its 2015 "Diversity Scorecard" for having the
highest number of Black/African-American attorneys, the fourth-highest number
of Asian-American attorneys and second or fourth-highest number of
Hispanic/Latino attorneys of the more than 200 firms that have been listed in
the scorecard for the past several years.
Executive
Partner Eric Friedman received the "Diversity & Inclusion Champion
Award" from the New York City Bar Association in 2012. He was the only law
firm managing partner to receive the award.
First law firm
to receive the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's "Equal Justice Award" for
our work and partnership over the years with LDF, particularly under the
leadership of Joe Flom and with the Skadden Fellows Program (2011).
SULLIVAN and CROMWELL LLP
Vision:
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP provides the highest quality
legal advice and representation to clients around the world. The results the
Firm achieves have set it apart for more than 140 years and have become a model
for the modern practice of law. Today, S&C is a leader in each of its core
practice areas and in each of its geographic markets.
S&C’s success is the result of the quality of its
lawyers, the most broadly and deeply trained collection of attorneys in the
world. The Firm’s lawyers work as a single partnership without geographic
division. S&C hires the very best law school graduates and trains them to
be generalists within broad practice areas. The Firm promotes lawyers to
partner almost entirely from among its own associates. The result is a
partnership with a unique diversity of experience, exceptional professional
judgment and a demonstrated history of innovation.
Clients of the Firm are nearly evenly divided between
U.S. and non-U.S. entities. They include industrial and commercial companies;
financial institutions; private funds; governments; educational, charitable and
cultural institutions; and individuals, estates and trusts. S&C’s client
base is exceptionally diverse, a result of the Firm’s extraordinary capacity to
tailor work to specific client needs.
S&C comprises more than 875 lawyers who serve clients
around the world through a network of 13 offices, located in leading financial
centers in Asia, Australia, Europe and the United States. The Firm is
headquartered in New York.
In 1879, Algernon Sydney Sullivan and William Nelson
Cromwell founded Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City’s renowned Financial
District. Throughout its long history, the Firm has been involved in some of
America’s greatest industrial, commercial and financial enterprises, from the
formation of Edison General Electric Company in 1882 and United States Steel
Corporation in 1901 to its present work with leaders of the global economy in
the 21st century.
The Early Years
Domestic and international finance has been at the core
of the Firm's work since its inception. Before World War I, S&C represented
European bankers and bond syndicates in financing the development of America's
railroads and industrial infrastructure. William Cromwell himself proved
instrumental in paving the way toward the construction of the Panama Canal.
Heading into the 20th century, as international capital
flows diversified and increased, the Firm responded by opening branch offices
in Berlin and Buenos Aires. By 1928, S&C's Paris facility was bustling as a
full-service office. As the Firm grew during this period of expansion, it
developed close relationships with leading financial intermediaries on both
sides of the Atlantic. S&C prides itself on continuing these relationships
to this day.
The Great Depression and World War II
The Great Depression spawned a burst of government
involvement in business affairs and a new wave of business-related litigation.
Several businesses called on S&C's expertise to steer them through this
trying period, and, before long, the Firm became known for its agility in
defending shareholder derivative litigation and antitrust actions. S&C also
was a pioneer among law firms to develop expertise in the complex area of
federal income tax law.
Beginning with the Securities Act of 1933, the federal government
enacted a series of statutes to regulate the investment industry. S&C holds
the honor of having prepared the first major registration statement under the
Securities Act, and the Firm continues to make substantial contributions to
securities offerings and regulation today. During World War II and its
political aftermath, S&C lawyers such as noted partners John Foster Dulles
and Arthur Dean played important individual roles in helping shape domestic
policy and international affairs.
Post-War Growth and Diversification
The explosive growth in the American economy and public
sector following World War II fueled a dramatic increase in demand for and
diversification of client requirements for legal services. S&C responded by
adding steadily to its global practice and pioneering in new areas of legal
knowledge and expertise to meet the many new challenges facing its clients.
In the postwar years, S&C’s international practice
continued to be closely associated with developments affecting global economic
affairs, particularly the ebb and flow of investments among the United States,
Europe and the Far East, and the fluctuations in U.S. dollar exchange rates
against other currencies. The Firm participated actively in the postwar
development of the international capital market in the United States and in the
new so-called Eurobond market that emerged in the 1960s. S&C also became
the first New York firm during this period to establish, on a permanent basis,
a visiting lawyer program for promising non-U.S. lawyers. Today, the program
boasts 320 alumni in 42 countries.
Becoming a Global Law Firm
S&C has grown in response to the increasing volume
and complexity of its clients' affairs, developing top-ranking practices in
mergers and acquisitions, banking regulation, real estate finance, derivatives
and private equity, among many other areas. The Firm's work in cross-border
capital flows continues to thrive as evidenced by the Firm’s substantial
involvement in foreign direct investment and project finance, the development
of the euro and other global capital markets, and the financial flows to Asia
and Latin America.
Despite its significant growth, the Firm has retained its
deep commitment to remaining a unified global practice. Unlike many law firms
with a multinational reach, S&C has built its international network of
offices, not by acquiring other firms or hiring large numbers of lateral
lawyers, but by developing offices to serve clients’ regional needs and
staffing those offices with lawyers who have spent their careers at S&C.
As the Firm has expanded, the scope and nature of its
practice has afforded S&C the opportunity to retain lawyers in locations
more convenient to our clients. S&C opened new U.S. branches in Washington,
D.C. (1977), Los Angeles (1984) and Palo Alto (2000). Outside the United
States, the Firm reopened its Paris office (which had been closed during World
War II) in 1962, and opened new offices in London (1972), Melbourne (1983),
Tokyo (1987), Hong Kong (1992), Frankfurt (1995), Beijing (1999), Sydney (2001)
and Brussels (2017).
Sullivan & Cromwell is committed to fostering a
diverse and inclusive work environment. We believe that diversity is vital to
the Firm's ability to provide our clients with the highest level of service.
Accordingly, the Firm's culture and policies value the unique abilities and
perspectives of every individual and support diversity in its broadest sense,
including race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender
expression, disability and religious affiliation.
The Firm's Diversity Committee is co-chaired by a member
of our Management Committee and the Deputy Managing Partner of the Firm's
Litigation department. Other members of the Diversity Committee include the
Firm's senior chairman, practice group managing partners, hiring partners,
assigning partners, chairs of the Firm's associate affinity networks, and a
co-chair of the Women's Initiative Committee. The Diversity Committee – in
conjunction with our Diversity Management Department (“DMD”) – is charged with
developing, implementing and coordinating the Firm's diversity and inclusion
initiatives. Realizing the importance of
an integrated approach, the DMD works closely with our Recruiting, Professional
Development and Legal Personnel Departments to monitor the effectiveness of our
extensive diversity initiatives and programs to further the Firm's mission.
In addition, our lawyers have diverse backgrounds; they
speak over 40 languages fluently and they come from approximately 40 different
countries and 150 different law schools.
Get Involved in Pro Bono
Commitment to pro bono work has been a core value of
S&C since our founding. Over the years, we’ve helped clients and nonprofit
organizations in need, changing lives and making legal history. Today, our pro
bono practice spans a wide range of issues and reflects the diversity of our
lawyers’ interests.
Our culture of excellence extends to the hundreds of pro
bono matters we handle every year. In addition to helping others, pro bono work
contributes significantly to our lawyers’ personal and professional development
and further sharpens their legal skills. Our pro bono practice includes
innovative projects that allow for the type of creative, dynamic lawyering that
is the hallmark of our work for corporate clients.
Talk to us about your interest in pro bono. We’re proud
of our pro bono work and hope you’ll add your passion and talents to our
ongoing efforts to make a difference.
Getting Started
Wondering how you’ll get started? When you arrive at the
Firm, you’ll receive a formal introduction to our pro bono practice and the
wide variety of available opportunities, led by Jessica Klein, our dedicated
pro bono counsel.
Pro bono is a part of our history and we’re committed to
making it a part of our future—join us!
WACHTELL LIPTON ROSEN and KATZ
Vision:
Wachtell Lipton was founded on a handshake in 1965 as a
small group of lawyers dedicated to providing advice and expertise at the
highest levels.
We have achieved extraordinary results following the
distinctive vision of our founders — a cohesive team of lawyers intensely
focused on solving our clients’ most important problems.
We have experience in the fields of mergers and
acquisitions, strategic investments, takeovers and takeover defense,
shareholder activism, corporate and securities law and corporate governance. We
handle some of the largest, most complex and demanding transactions in the
United States and around the world. We counsel both public and private
acquirors and targets. We also handle sensitive investigation and litigation
matters and corporate restructurings, and counsel boards of directors and
senior management in critical situations. We have a track record of original
and groundbreaking solutions and innovations that have had a dramatic impact on
business and law. We are thought leaders.
Our distinctive structure defines our approach. We
maintain a ratio of associates to partners significantly below that of other
firms. We focus on matters that require the attention, extensive experience and
sophistication of our partners. We limit the number and type of matters we
undertake. Our system of lock-step
compensation promotes a careful selection of matters as well as the flexibility
to bring the right expertise to bear without regard to factors extrinsic to
providing the best service and advice. We work together on a task-force basis
on all of our matters, bringing to bear the requisite mix of people and
expertise across practice areas. Our structure and approach attract talented
and entrepreneurial lawyers, who enable us to achieve excellent results for our
clients in complex and critical matters.
Commitment to Pro Bono Work
Wachtell Lipton is committed to supporting attorneys who
undertake pro bono projects in all areas of the law. Pro bono clients are clients of the firm, and
no distinction is made between hours spent on pro bono or other client matters.
The firm provides partner supervision, training, and
mentoring on all pro bono matters.
Associates are encouraged to attend pro bono training classes and
seminars held by our partnering organizations.
In addition, summer associates routinely participate in Wachtell
Lipton’s pro bono practice and may be assigned to any pro bono matter.
Recent Representative Matters
Attorneys at Wachtell Lipton have represented pro bono
clients in many areas of the law including, civil rights, immigration, criminal
defense, nonprofit corporate and tax law, housing rights, real estate, and the
arts. For example, through our work with
the Office of the Appellate Defender and on the CJA Panel in the Southern
District of New York, our attorneys have represented indigent criminal
defendants at trial, plea hearings, sentencing, and appeal; through
partnerships with a variety of legal organizations, we have handled many
immigration matters; in partnership with Her Justice, our firm has represented
a number of indigent women in their family court battles with abusive spouses;
we take on prominent public interest matters.
For example, on behalf of the Chief Judge of the State of New York, we
represented the state’s judiciary in historic and successful litigation over
the state’s failure to increase the pay of its judges since 1999. We took on one of the earliest cases
challenging the military’s policies discriminating against gay service
members. And, we frequently assist
nonprofit organizations in a variety of corporate and organizational matters.
For example, our attorneys have represented the American Friends of Rambam
Medical Center, a 501(c)(3) corporation supporting a major research hospital in
northern Israel, in connection with a variety of corporate, compliance and
organizational matters.
Community Activities
We are proud of the considerable contributions that
Wachtell Lipton has made to the legal profession and the positive impact we
have on our community through service on not-for-profit boards, financial
support and leadership on numerous philanthropic and public policy causes. In
addition, our attorneys have taught courses at law schools including Columbia,
Fordham, Harvard, New York University, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford and
Yale, among others, in fields such as constitutional law, ethics, advanced
criminal procedure, deal litigation, legal writing and corporate law.
Diversity
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz is strongly committed
to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment that supports the
recruitment, retention and advancement of women and men of all backgrounds, at
all levels of the Firm.
We are an original signatory to the New York City Bar’s
Statement of Goals for Increasing Minority Representation and Retention. The
Firm is committed to recruiting a diverse and talented body of lawyers
considering diversity in its broadest form.
We were one of the first New York City law firms to offer health
benefits to domestic partners and to offer benefits to transgender individuals.
Diversity Committee
The Firm has a Diversity Committee, which provides
guidance and recommendations on policies, procedures and specific action steps
to meet the Firm’s objectives with regard to diversity and inclusion. The Firm
has two full-time professionals who administer the Firm’s diversity
initiatives: an Associate Director of Recruiting and Diversity and a Senior
Recruiting and Diversity Specialist.
Our Diversity Committee often works in conjunction with
our Associate Development Committee to increase development initiatives for all
associates.
Diversity Initiatives and Programs
Since 2009, we
have hosted a series of heritage month recognition presentations at the Firm.
We have been fortunate to welcome General Counsel of Fortune 500 Companies,
Presidents and Directors of prominent public interest groups, Circuit Court
Judges and Law School Professors, among others.
We actively
encourage and support affinity group meetings among our attorneys. While
informal in nature, these forums have proven to be a good way for attorneys to
get together to discuss shared concerns and work toward a common goal.
Currently, we have groups that represent our Women, African-American/Black,
Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, LGBT, Parents and Veteran attorneys.
We have
administered a 1L Summer Associate Diversity Program for more than 16 years,
which has produced a number of full-time associate hires.
The Firm has
been an active participant in various school-sponsored minority job fairs. We
are also proud sponsors of the Lavender Law Career Fair. Throughout the year,
we are also proud to sponsor and participate in numerous student affinity group
activities, panels and conferences at various schools throughout the country.
We have been a
partner firm in the Seizing Every Opportunity (SEO) Corporate Law Intern
Program since 2007. A number of these summer interns have gone on to become
full-time associates. We also participate in and are benefactors for the Prep
for Prep Internship Program and the Legal Outreach Summer Internship Program.
We are proud to
report that we were one of five pilot firms that participated in the
NALP/Street Law Legal Diversity Pipeline Program in 2009 and have continued and
expanded our involvement in recent years.
We are a
founding member of the Kate Stoneman Project (KSP), whose mission is to provide
a forum to address issues regarding the advancement of women in the legal
profession. As such we are an active participant in the group’s programming for
attorneys and law school students.
We are
sponsoring corporate members of the National Association of Women Lawyers
(NAWL), giving our women attorneys full access to their programming and
networking opportunities.
We are members
of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) and have nominated
attorneys to participate in their Fellows Program, their 1L Scholars Program
and their Pathfinders Program.
Recognition
In 2018, we
were named a Compass Award winner for participation and commitment to all LCLD
programming.
In 2018, we
received category honors for Leadership & Promotions by the Yale Law
Women’s Top Ten Female and Family Friendly Firms survey, acknowledging that at
least 50% of attorneys promoted to equity partner in 2017 were women. In 2014,
in the same survey we received category honors for Utilization of Part-Time.