Sullivan & Worcester LLP

In furtherance of the firm’s goal of providing world-class legal service, we recognize that diversity of ideas, backgrounds, and experience are essential to meeting that goal. Our commitment to diversity is one of the firm’s most important core values. We aspire to recruit, retain, and promote talented individuals representing the full spectrum of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, age, and physical ability. The firm’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee has been tasked with recommending specific action, educating, and monitoring the firm’s diversity and inclusion efforts.

The mission of our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs includes:

• Creating an inclusive environment in which attorneys and staff are respected, supported, and provided with opportunities to succeed
• Creating programs and opportunities to support, mentor, and sponsor diverse attorneys, as well as educating our attorneys and staff on diversity issues
• Continuously seeking opportunities to increase the number of talented diverse attorneys and staff through targeted recruitment, retention, and promotion programs
• Ensuring that the firm’s professional development programs, evaluation, and feedback processes, work assignment processes, and business development efforts are inclusive at all levels
• Ensuring that attorneys and staff of varying backgrounds and perspectives are represented in leadership positions within the firm
• Assessing the firm’s efforts and evaluating new initiatives to improve our performance in this field