Diversity: Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A.

Richards, Layton & Finger is an inclusive workplace that recruits the finest lawyers and professionals and nurtures their talents. The firm's Diversity Committee is dedicated to promoting our diversity and fostering a work environment that welcomes and values our differences. We have a long tradition of diversity among our members -- a tradition that continues to grow.

• First major Delaware law firm to have a Jewish partner
• First major Delaware law firm to have a female partner
• First major Delaware law firm to have an African American partner
• First major Delaware law firm to have a South Asian partner
• The firm offers flexible work schedules to attorneys and staff with family needs
• The firm provides health and dental benefits to domestic partners of attorneys and staff
• A Richards Layton attorney is co-founder and president-elect of the Delaware Hispanic Bar Association, the first professional association in Delaware for Hispanic attorneys
• A Richards Layton attorney is co-founder and chair of the Delaware chapter of CREW, an organization supporting women in commercial real estate

Our diverse group of attorneys and staff reflects our community and fuels our ability to provide outstanding client service. Demonstrating the firm's ongoing commitment to diversity both inside and outside the firm, our attorneys are actively involved in efforts to promote diversity in the legal profession as well as in the community at large.

• Founding and ongoing sponsor, administrator, and participant in the two Delaware Minority Job Fairs held each year
• Sponsor and participant in the first annual Delaware Diversity Retreat
• Serves on the Delaware Supreme Court's Gender/Racial Fairness Oversight Committee
• Active in the Delaware State Bar Association Multicultural Judges and Lawyers Section, which carries out community-based initiatives
• Involved in DirectWomen, an initiative of the American Bar Association to identify women lawyers for appointment to corporate boards
• Serves on the women's committee and the committee on racial and ethnic diversity of the United States Law Firm Group
• Served on the American Bar Association Business Law Section's Diversity Committee and Women's Business Law Network
• Sponsor of the 2008 Haile L. Alford Memorial Conference, organized by the Delaware State Bar Association to discuss ways to promote diversity in the Delaware Bar
• Regular participant in the National Association for Law Placement (NALP) Diversity Summit