By The Numbers

Hanson Bridgett's commitment to diversity is in some ways best exemplified by its ongoing recognition and embracing of the fact that it has much more work to do, both regarding itself and in the greater community.

Diversity Commitments

• Established a formal Diversity Mission Statement to underscore the firm's diversity goals and commitment as institutional policy
• Signed onto the original 1989 and the current Goals and Timetables for Minority Hiring and Advancement established by the Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF) for the years 1995 and 2000 (one of the first regional law firms to do so)
• Signed onto the current BASF Goals and Timetables for Minority Hiring and Advancement for 2005 and 2010
• Subscribed to the BASF No Glass Ceiling goals for the years 2004 and 2005
• Established the Gerald D. Marcus Fellowship at University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) in March 2002 to help provide opportunities for underrepresented minorities
• Sponsor receptions to help law schools recruit students of color
• Provide workshops on study, exam-taking and interviewing skills for law-students-of-color organizations
• Sponsor numerous minority bar associations and diversity-focused organizations

Firm Attorneys & Staff

• The firm has increased its percentage of associates of color by nearly four times and its percentage of partner and senior counsel of color by more than three times since 1989.
• The firm's Management Committee is composed of 20% women and 20% people of color
• Women, people of color, and self-identified gays, lesbians, and bisexuals are the heads of major practice areas and chair some of the firm's most important internal committees.
• The firm's non-attorney management is composed of 64.4% women and 27.2% people of color.