At Crowell & Moring, diversity is about creating a culture of inclusion. We are a multinational firm that embraces different backgrounds, ideas, traditions, and perspectives, where people are recognized for who they are\u2014for their unique talents and perspectives.<\/p>\n
Demonstrating the firm\u2019s willingness to commit significant resources to this effort, we:<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Achieved Mansfield 2.0 Certification status in 2019. The Mansfield Rule measures whether law firms have affirmatively considered women, lawyers of color, and LGBTQ+ lawyers \u2014 at least 30 percent of the candidate pool \u2014 for significant leadership and governance roles in the firm (for example, practice group leaders and management board) as well as promotions to equity partner and senior-level lateral hiring.<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Launched Sponsorship 2.0\u2014Yearly Cohort. Building on our foundation of sponsorship, we collaborated with an external consultant to create an opportunity for 36 lawyers\u2014associates, counsel, and partners\u2014to participate in sponsorship circles, with workshops and informal gatherings. The purpose of the program is to: 1) build and maintain a strong pipeline of talent; 2) promote access to critical relationships across the business; 3) broaden diverse talent visibility; 4) accelerate key development opportunities; and 5) encourage application of intangible leadership success.<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Hosted our second bi-annual Diversity Retreat in 2019. We brought together the firm\u2019s LGBTQ+ attorneys and attorneys of color for two days of networking and professional development opportunities. Topics discussed have included building your personal brand; cultivating communications skills; increasing cultural competency in order to acknowledge, discuss, and use to our collective advantage ours and others\u2019 differences; defining your own path to success; bringing your authentic self to work; and the ways in which our diverse attorneys feel that the firm can increase our resources in all of these areas. We have also hosted a panel of diverse, in-house counsel that underscored many of these themes. Our next retreat will take place in 2021.<\/p>\n
Other items of note:<\/p>\n
\u00b7 We continue to foster community-building within the firm. The firm has affinity and inclusion networks for African American attorneys, Asian American and Pacific Islander attorneys, Hispanic and Latino attorneys, LGBTQ+ attorneys, women-identifying attorneys, Caregivers (for both attorneys and staff), and balanced-hours attorneys.<\/p>\n
\u00b7 We are actively engaged with organizations dedicated to furthering diversity in the profession, including the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, the Center for Talent Innovation\u2019s Task Force for Talent Innovation, Minority Corporate Counsel Association, Diversity & Flexibility Alliance, and California Minority Counsel Program. Firm lawyers are not just active but leaders in bars including the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, Hispanic National Bar Association, National LGBT Bar Association, and local affiliates of these organizations.<\/p>\n
\u00b7 We have ranked among Working Mother\u2019s \u201cBest Law Firms for Women\u201d for the past eight years.<\/p>\n
\u00b7 We have received a 100% score on the HRC’s Corporate Equality Index for eight consecutive years and were listed among the top law firms for minority attorneys in Law360\u2019s Diversity Snapshot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-501685","additional_tab","type-additional_tab","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/additional_tab\/501685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/additional_tab"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/additional_tab"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}