Black just isn’t what it used to be. Sometimes it is African American, or Caribbean. Neither is Asian or Hispanic. And, believe it or not, even straight white men aren’t all the same. We get it.

These days, the standard race/religion/gender/etc. categories are just the beginning––there are so many different cultural and lifestyle backgrounds which contribute to our complexity as a firm. So when you walk through the door your first day, you’ll take a voluntary self-identification survey that gives you the opportunity right up front to tell us everything you want to about yourself and who you really are.

Those differences can also be leveraged across the firm to establish relationships and networks within individual distinctions––affinity groups and our women’s programs for instance. But it has also led to programs, like our Oxonian Lectures, that have fostered a sense of community by bringing together people who might not have otherwise met, and that, in turn, is expanding the roster of shared interests that leads to increasing diversity.

In the end, diversity is about celebrating differences while fostering inclusion. Individually, we do everything possible to make each and every person feel valued, so that his or her needs and identity are recognized and responded to––the idea being that supported and appreciated leads to happy and fulfilled.

That makes you happy, makes us happy, makes the clients really happy.