- In total, over 65% of our firm’s professionals
(shareholders, all other lawyers, all patent agents and technical advisors and
all other professionals) are underrepresented minorities*.
*
Underrepresented minorities as defined by
gender, race/ethnicity, orientation, identity, disability, and military/veteran
status of all firm full-time equivalents as of January 2022.
- 40% of all new lawyers, patent agents, and
technical advisors hired by Conley Rose, P.C. in the past three years are underrepresented
minorities (as of January 2022).
- 50% of the new shareholders elected in the 2020‒2021 class are underrepresented minorities.
- In addition to English, members of our firm can communicate to varying degrees in: Arabic, Bangla/Bengali, French, German, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese.
- For over four years, the firm has worked
closely with the Houston Bar Association’s Diversity, Equity,
and Inclusion program and
has consistently hired minority summer law clerks through the program. The firm
has invited several of them back for a second summer clerkship and is pleased
to have successfully hired a full-time lawyer from this program.
Conley Rose, P.C., also pursues
its deep commitment to increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion within the
legal profession, the intellectual property law sector, and the firm itself by:
- Actively encouraging, promoting, participating
in, and supporting a collegial, friendly, inclusive, diverse, and professional
workplace and hiring process.
- Valuing relationships above all else, including
our relationships with clients, referral sources, colleagues, vendors, and
other contacts and our internal relationships among all lawyers and
professional staff.
- Actively participating in and/or donating to:
- Firm leadership and staff collaborating with the
firm’s Diversity Committee.
- Working to add ALL firm professionals to this
website (an inclusion project that is ongoing as of January 2022).
- Hiring a director of client services from an
underrepresented minority (currently on a contract basis as of January 2022).
If you have any questions about Conley Rose, P.C.’s ongoing
commitment and activities designed to increase DEI, please contact the firm’s president,
Michael
Piper.
Conley
Rose, P.C, is committed to increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)
beyond just talk alone