At Robinson Bradshaw, we are committed to fostering a welcoming workplace that values all people. Our ultimate goal is to create and sustain a firm that provides first-rate legal services to our clients while providing all of our lawyers and professional staff alike the opportunity to reach their fullest professional potential in a mutually supportive environment.
Our firm serves our clients best when we bring a range of different backgrounds and experiences to bear on any particular legal issue. Recognizing and celebrating those differences underscores what we all have in common: a commitment to exemplary client service, professional excellence and a collaborative working environment.
Our efforts to create and maintain a diverse, equitable and inclusive law firm take many shapes, including enhancing recruitment and retention practices, implementing internal structures and practices to support all our employees, and championing initiatives in the legal industry and community.
Robinson Bradshaw takes intentional efforts to attract and hire employees with varied backgrounds, experiences and points of view. We continually seek to expand the pool of candidates considered to join our firm. As an example, the Robinson Bradshaw Diversity and Opportunity Fellowship program offers paid positions in our summer associate program and scholarship funds to talented 1L and 2L candidates who demonstrate an interest and ability to enhance our firm with their diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experiences.
Robinson Bradshaw creates and maintains structures to provide all employees with equal opportunity to achieve their full professional potential and to maximize their contributions to the firm. The firm’s formal mentoring program is designed to ensure that all firm lawyers receive sponsorship and support to realize their full potential. Affinity groups for employees with shared experiences or interests serve as a source of support, relationship-building, community and education. Our Lawyers of Color, Women’s Initiative, RB+PRIDE and Multicultural Staff Alliance groups meet and provide programming on a regular basis. We value having inclusive firm leadership, reflective of our workforce. To this end, the firm has achieved and maintains Mansfield Certification by Diversity Lab.
Robinson Bradshaw is committed to supporting efforts to improve our local bar, the broader legal industry and our community.
- We work alongside the Mecklenburg County Bar and other law firms to increase bar diversity in many ways, including by supporting the bar's Diversity & Inclusion Committee at the highest level. Robinson Bradshaw was an original signatory of the bar's 2004 Call to Action, and firm attorney Robert E. Harrington served as one of the committee’s founding co-chairs.
- We have participated in the bar's Charlotte Legal Clerkship Program since 2006.
- The firm is a member of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, an organization of more than 400 corporate chief legal officers and law firm managing partners.
- Robinson Bradshaw is also a member of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, an organization whose mission is to make the next generation of legal leaders as diverse as the world we live in.
- We participate in the Mayor’s Youth Employment Program, which is designed to provide Charlotte youth with equitable career development opportunities to explore the world of work, build social capital and enhance economic mobility.
There is always room for growth, and we remain committed to our pursuit of a diverse, equitable and inclusive firm. For questions about the firm’s initiatives, please contact James Cass or Amit Bhagwandass, co-chairs of our diversity, equity and inclusion committee.
