DIVERSITY
Miller Law Group was founded in 1998 by Michele Ballard Miller on the principle that women attorneys should have opportunities to own, manage, and engage in an exciting and fast-paced law practice. Today, as the largest women-owned management-side employment litigation firm in the country, Miller Law Group is a diverse workplace committed to attracting and retaining a diverse group of attorneys and staff. We have proven that diversity works as the foundation of a successful law firm -- for example, in 2010 and 2011 we were named as one of the 100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times (number 55 in 2010, moving up to number 45 in 2011), and we were selected this year for American Lawyer Media’s “Go-To Law Firms” list in litigation.
The firm is certified as a women-owned business by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) and is active in the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF). In addition, the firm actively participates in the California Minority Counsel Program, completed the 2011 Vault/MCCA Law Firm Diversity Survey, and is a member of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s (MCCA) Firm Affiliate Network.
Miller Law Group is committed to designing and implementing policies and practices that will attract and support women, men, and diverse attorneys. For example, we offer flexible work schedules and generous paid family leave, and we support attorneys to take time to coach their children’s soccer teams or volunteer in the classroom. And for those times when attorneys and staff need to bring their children to the office, we have a special kids’ room with movies, games, and air hockey and foosball tables.
While Miller Law Group is a naturally diverse environment as a women-owned firm, we remain proactive in our efforts to attract and retain a diverse group of attorneys and staff, with respect to gender, race, LGBT status, and other diversity factors. For example, in early 2011 the firm implemented a diversity committee, with key goals for the coming year to set up mentoring relationships within the firm for minority attorneys, create opportunities for diverse attorneys to be active in legal organizations, and provide a framework to ensure equitable staffing of cases. Over the past year, we continued our active participation in NAMWOLF to partner with businesses to further their diversity initiatives, increase awareness of the benefits of diversity in a law firm practice, and to recruit women and minority attorneys.
In summer 2011, Miller Law Group shareholder Lisa Hamasaki was a panelist in a roundtable hosted by California Lawyer magazine and moderated by the California Minority Counsel Program. The panelists discussed the business case for diversity in the legal profession, as well as how corporate legal departments and law firms are measuring diversity and fostering development and retention of diverse attorneys. The roundtable was featured in the June 2011 issue of California Lawyer magazine.
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