Holland & Hart LLP

Legal professionals face increasing risk of civil liability, criminal liability, and ethics charges. In matters of complex professional liability or ethics claims, Holland & Hart's attorneys understand the sensitivity of the issues and are well suited to provide sophisticated counsel. We recognize that these matters have much more at stake than money, and that a professional's most valued asset is his or her reputation.

Experience
Holland & Hart's attorneys understand the ethical and legal issues associated with professional liability. We have extensive litigation and alternative dispute resolution experience, and often counsel clients on the best options in negotiations with regulatory counsel, settlement, or trial. We also understand the intricate relationships in attorney professional negligence claims, including those between insurer, lawyers, and clients.

Our professional liability attorneys regularly represent professionals in malpractice actions, other civil and criminal actions, and ethical and regulatory proceedings. We counsel lawyers on wide-ranging practice and ethical matters, and at times serve as experts on standard of care. In any matter, our attorneys understand the delicate issues and sensitivities at hand. We work with clients to minimize potential impacts on their clients, practices, and reputations.

Holland & Hart's Statement of Commitment to Diversity
We are proud of our tradition of fostering and maintaining a work environment in which the diversity of each individual is valued and celebrated. We believe that the contributions of each individual are essential to our continued growth and to our ultimate goal of providing excellent quality legal services to our clients, with greater creativity and innovation. We are committed to taking full advantage of the rich backgrounds and abilities of our people and to promoting a greater diversity whenever and wherever possible.

Diversity Pledge
Holland & Hart is committed to promoting diversity by:

• Making every possible effort to recruit, hire, retain, and promote diverse persons at all levels of employment.
• Promoting greater sensitivity to the value of racial, ethnic and other forms of diversity, through diversity and sensitivity coaching or training for law firm members.
• Inviting to partnership diverse attorneys who meet the requisite criteria.

Diversity Initiatives
The following are additional examples of our commitment and efforts toward supporting and achieving diversity:

• We make a conscious effort to ensure that women and diverse attorneys are included as voting members of our committees of importance within the firm.
• We work closely with law school deans and placement directors in an effort to identify women and diverse law students who are interested in working at Holland & Hart.
• Holland & Hart offers medical and other benefits to partners of gay and lesbian employees on the same terms as it does to spouses of employees.
• We created an Indian Law Practice Group and actively recruited Native American law students and lateral hires.
• Each year we contribute to such scholarship funds as the Colorado Native American Indian Scholarship Fund, the Sam Cary Scholarship Endowment Fund, the Colorado Asian American Bar Scholarship Fund, the Colorado Hispanic Bar Scholarship Fund, and the Colorado Women's Bar Association Scholarship Fund.
• In partnership with the University of Idaho School of Law, we sponsor a "Law by Day, Jazz by Night" each year for undergraduate minority students who have an interest in law.
• We took a leadership role in organizing and supporting the Colorado Pledge Group's Minority First Year Law Student Summer Clerk Program. Through this program, law firms agreed to add at least one diverse first year law student to their summer clerk program.
• We were involved in the creation of the Cross-Professional Business Networking Group, where diverse attorneys in our community can meet and network with non-attorney professionals of color. We view this as a way to help diverse attorneys increase their business development possibilities.

For more information regarding Holland & Hart's commitment to diversity, please contact Peter Houtsma at (303) 295-8259.