Commitment to Diversity
Williams Mullen is committed to the diversity of its workplace. The firm’s mission is to foster an environment where individuals of all races, color, ethnicity, culture, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, age, disability, andmarital and parental status contribute and succeed professionally. A diverse workplace is a productive workplace, a social responsibility and a business and client expectation. Our efforts to embrace a diverse workplace include: (a) demonstrating the clear and consistent commitment of our leadership to diversity; (b) enhancing and sustaining an inclusive culture at our firm; (c) recruiting a diverse group of talented individuals to our firm; (d) providing domestic partner benefits to those who are eligible and their children whenever our benefits and employee policies deal with family relationships; (e) communicating, both internally, and externally our commitment to diversity; (f) the establishment of our Attorneys of Color, LGBT and Women’s Initiatives; (g) providing an internal quarterly newsletter – evolve., which highlights the many contributions of our employees both internally and in the community, in addition to our various diversity initiatives; and (h) recognizing the various heritage and awareness months throughout the year with an internal educational newsletter that features the history and contributions by persons of diverse backgrounds.
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Disaster Recovery
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Does the firm have a disaster recovery plan in place?
Yes
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Quality Management
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Does the firm conduct end of matter reviews?
Yes
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Litigation eDiscovery Best Practices
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Does the firm have an established eDiscovery Committee?
Yes
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Does the firm have a standardized protocol to guide processing clients' edata? (i.e. all data produced in PDF, meta data preserved?)
Yes
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Does the firm have a standardized approach for document reviews across practice groups (i.e. established protocol for eDiscovery review depending on the needs of the case)
Yes
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Knowledge Management
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Does the firm have a knowledge management program?
Yes
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Matter Budgeting and Financial Management
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Does the firm establish formal budgets for client engagements?
Yes
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Are bills submitted electronically?
Yes
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Litigation General Best Practices
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Does the firm's litigation department have a structured approach to early case assessment? For example: Does your firm implement a standard approach to determine risks and strengths early in a case to assess trial or settlement options?
Yes
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Does the firm have an established records management team to assist clients with records retention, compliance and litigation preparedness?
Yes
