In surveys conducted by The National Law Journal and The Legal Intelligencer, our firm has been identified, both on a national and regional level, as one of the leading large law firms in the categories of minority hiring and advancement. We highly value our minority shareholders and associates. There are numerous instances of these men and women handling high-exposure and complex litigation, as well as playing vitally important roles in the management of our firm. As an example, our firm is managed via four practice departments that each include a practice department Director and Assistant Director. Minority attorneys make up 25% of the practice department managers at the firm. In addition, a minority attorney currently serves on our Board of Directors and another as the firm's Hiring Shareholder. While we are proud of the rich diversity already existing in our firm, we believe we can do even better and have been initiating additional steps to assure that our actions are commensurate with our expressed deep commitment in this area.
Minority attorneys at Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin are members of, and participate in, numerous minority organizations, including the National Bar Association (African-American attorneys), the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, the National Hispanic Bar Association, the Barristers' Association of Philadelphia (membership primarily made up of African-American attorneys practicing in the Philadelphia region), the South Asian Bar Association of Philadelphia, the Asian American Bar Association of the Delaware Valley (membership is primarily made up of Asian American attorneys practicing in the Philadelphia region), the Hispanic Bar Association of Pennsylvania and the Tampa Bay Hispanic Bar Association. Additionally, minority attorneys serve on minority and diversity committees and subcommittees of various national and local professional organizations.
Marshall Dennehey recruits minority attorney candidates in a variety of ways. In the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh regions, our Hiring Shareholder has established relationships with career placement officers at each of the local law schools in those regions. Beginning in 2006, we utilized those relationships in order to identify and invite Philadelphia area minority students from each of the six, local law schools to an evening cocktail party that Marshall Dennehey co-sponsored with two other law firms. Invitations were sent to each of the students, various leaders of the Philadelphia Bar Association, and various judges who would be in attendance to show support for the diversity efforts of Marshall Dennehey and the two other participating firms. This placed us on the radar screen of many candidates who were simply not familiar with our firm and who, historically, had not sought employment with our firm. It resulted in a significant increase in the number and quality of minority candidates who have sought interviews with our firm. As a result, we have seen an increase in the number of minorities hired as law clerks or attorneys, in large measure, we believe, as a result of this event.
Our firm also participates in minority job fairs and targets the legal industry in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, suburban Philadelphia and Wilmington, Delaware. In addition, as a matter of course, we seek to identify minority attorneys and law students interested in a career in litigation and invite them to apply to our firm.
We have also increased the scope of our minority recruiting efforts to encompass the additional states in which we maintain our offices.
Our firm has also implemented a mentoring system where our minority shareholders reach out to our younger minority associates to provide them with the support, counsel and encouragement that can make a very significant difference in their professional progression.
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Number of Associates who are...
- Non-minority Males 84
- Minority Males 15
- Non-minority Females 81
- Minority Females 20
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Number of Librarians who are...
- Non-minority Males 1
- Minority Males 0
- Non-minority Females 4
- Minority Females 3
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Number of Technology Professionals who are...
- Non-minority Males 19
- Minority Males 7
- Non-minority Females 6
- Minority Females 6
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Matter Budgeting and Financial Management
- Does the firm establish formal budgets for client engagements? Yes
- Are bills submitted electronically? Yes
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Number of Partners who are...
- Non-minority Males 208
- Minority Males 8
- Non-minority Females 57
- Minority Females 4
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Disaster Recovery
- Does the firm have a disaster recovery plan in place? Yes
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Knowledge Management
- Does the firm have a knowledge management program? Yes
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Vendor Management
- Does the firm have preferred vendor relationships? Yes
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Number of Finance Professionals who are...
- Non-minority Males 14
- Minority Males 2
- Non-minority Females 37
- Minority Females 13
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Number of Administrative Professionals who are...
- Non-minority Males 0
- Minority Males 0
- Non-minority Females 26
- Minority Females 4
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Number of Human Resources Professionals who are...
- Non-minority Males 1
- Minority Males 0
- Non-minority Females 4
- Minority Females 0
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Litigation General Best Practices
- Does the firm have a formalized new associate litigation training/mentoring program? Yes
- 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
- Does the firm have an established records management team to assist clients with records retention, compliance and litigation preparedness? Yes
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Litigation eDiscovery Best Practices
- Does the firm have an established eDiscovery Committee? Yes
- Does your firm have any educational programs designed to address the changing federal rules of civil procedure? Yes
- Does your firm have a standardized protocol to guide client data collection? (i.e. Maintaining chain of custody, utilizing forensically sound procedures) Yes
- Does the firm have a standardized protocol to guide processing clients' edata? (i.e. all data produced in PDF, meta data preserved?) Yes
- 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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Number of Of Counsel who are...
- Non-minority Males 5
- Minority Males 0
- Non-minority Females 0
- Minority Females 0
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Number of Other Lawyers who are...
- Non-minority Males 0
- Minority Males 0
- Non-minority Females 0
- Minority Females 0
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Number of Paralegals who are...
- Non-minority Males 7
- Minority Males 2
- Non-minority Females 73
- Minority Females 9
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Number of Marketing Professionals who are...
- Non-minority Males 1
- Minority Males 0
- Non-minority Females 6
- Minority Females 0
