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Commitment to Diversity
Brinks is recognized as a premier intellectual property law firm throughout the world. We have developed one of the most diversified, experienced and widely respected practices in the world. We recognize that the firm's attorneys should be no less diverse. We highly value diversity and are deeply committed to a firm culture where different people, with different perspectives, unite for the common purpose of pursuing excellence in serving our clients' legal needs.
We recognize that the road to achieving optimum diversity may be difficult at times, but this does not deter us. We also recognize that diversity in the workplace requires constant vigilance, and this does not deter us. To help fully achieve, maintain and nurture our firm's diversity, Brinks has adopted the following principles and initiatives:
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Commitment
Our Management, Recruiting, Hiring and Diversity Committees will work together to establish and implement programs that actively promote the Firm's diversity initiatives. Our goal is to identify and eliminate any barriers to the success of diverse attorneys.
The Firm's Diversity Committee will report directly to the President and Board of Directors. The Diversity Committee will be responsible for improving our diverse culture, developing initiatives to enhance the leadership roles of women, racially diverse and other diverse attorneys at the firm, monitoring the firm's diversity programs, and ensuring that the various diversity initiatives are met. The Diversity Committee will provide a forum for diverse attorneys to convey feedback and a channel of communication with senior management.
Hiring
Our recruiting plan promotes the hiring of highly accomplished, diverse law students and lateral attorneys. The Recruiting and Hiring Committees will actively participate in achieving the firm's diversity goals and will take these goals into consideration in making hiring decisions. We will participate in minority job fairs and we will recruit on-campus at historically diverse law schools. Our goal is to achieve a level of diversity that reflects the diversity of graduating law students. We will review our recruiting programs annually to measure our success and modify our programs as needed to accomplish this goal.
Retention and Promotion
We will seek to achieve a level of retention and promotion for diverse attorneys throughout an entry-level class's progression toward partnership that is at least as great as when the class first arrived at the firm. We will strive to achieve this goal as soon as possible. Toward this end, we will establish and support initiatives that ensure that diverse attorneys are provided: (1) meaningful mentoring opportunities for career development and promotion within the firm; (2) meaningful opportunities to perform significant work for important clients; (3) meaningful training, guidance and feedback; and (4) meaningful opportunities to participate in work-related social and professional activities with clients and other lawyers. We will review our retention and training programs annually to measure our success and modify our programs as need to accomplish these goals and initiatives.
Leadership
We will work to support and enable diverse attorneys to achieve leadership positions throughout our firm and the legal community. Leadership positions within the firm include membership on the Executive Committee and Board of Directors, committee and practice group chairs, and committee membership.
Community Activities
We recognize the value of serving the community. We will encourage our attorneys to participate in programs designed to support people of diverse backgrounds. To this end, we will continue to encourage our attorneys to participate in pro bono work. We will continue to work actively with community programs that promote education of racially diverse high school and college students, and to seek additional opportunities to do so.
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Firm History
