We have long understood that our future as a top law firm depends on developing world-class lawyers with a wide range of perspectives, experiences and social identities. We therefore regard it as imperative that we create and maintain an environment where all members of our community can flourish.
To ensure this, our lawyers receive mandatory diversity training every year. We are a signatory to the New York City Bar’s “Statement of Diversity Principles,” which expresses our commitment to facilitating diversity in the hiring, retention and promotion of lawyers, and to the ABA Pledge for Change: Disability Diversity in the Legal Profession. We also support a number of legal organizations aimed at increasing diversity, including AALDEF, AABANY, Asian American Law Fund, KALAGNY, Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD), LeGal, Lambda Legal and the New York City Bar.
In July 2021, we adopted the Mansfield Rule 5.0, a national initiative created by Diversity Lab to help close the diversity gap in the legal profession. The firm’s goal in adopting the Mansfield Rule is to diversify our talent pipeline, particularly as we develop the next generation of firm leaders, which is critical to the firm’s future success.
Our diversity program has been recognized by many of the organizations that monitor such efforts, including Vault and the Chambers Associate satisfaction survey. The firm earned a perfect score and was recognized as a 2022 Best Place to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality in the Human Rights Campaign’s annual Corporate Equality Index. In 2020, Yale Law Women’s 15th annual Top Firms for Gender Equity & Family Friendliness Report recognized Kramer Levin as a top firm for promotion practices and advancement for part-time lawyers.
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We’re better together. We believe that we all have a role to play in making Kramer Levin more inclusive, and we encourage all employees to bring their ideas and energy to our effort to make Kramer Levin a place where everyone feels like they belong.
Learn more about how lawyers and staff alike are encouraged to engage here.