Diversity Hogan & Hartson has long been committed to recruiting, retaining, and promoting attorneys with diverse backgrounds and experiences, including racial and ethnic minorities, women, and gays and lesbians. We believe that our diversity significantly enhances our ability to provide high-quality legal services to our clients. We are proud of our record on diversity, as the firm's demographics show.

We are committed to continuing to preserve and promote that diversity, through our recruitment and retention efforts, through our firm culture, and through the firm's emphasis on training and professional development of all associates. The firm's Diversity Committee has a leadership role in all these efforts.

“Hogan & Hartson has a long history of promoting diversity among its attorneys and staff. We are committed to fostering a work environment that reflects the world we live in and the clients we serve. We understand that for a global practice like ours to thrive we must be able to think and act in a diverse world.”
- J. Warren Gorrell, Jr., Chairman

Our practice allows talented men and women with different personalities, points of view, skills, and approaches to the practice of law to collaborate in an environment of mutual support and respect. This is a hallmark of our firm culture and something that we work hard to preserve.

We are committed to continuing and expanding our long-standing efforts to hire and promote lawyers from diverse backgrounds. Some of our achievements in this area include:

• We were one of the first major law firms in the country to achieve a critical mass of women and people of color.
• Our first female partner joined the firm as an associate in 1968 and our first African-American partner joined us that same year.
• The 2007 Vault Guide to the Top 100 Law Firms rated the firm among the top 20 firms in the country for our diversity with respect to women, for our diversity with respect to minorities, and for our "overall" diversity.
• Multicultural Law magazine selected Hogan & Hartson as one of the 2007 Top 100 Law Firms for Diversity across the United States.
• Our Washington, D.C. office was ranked No. 5 in the 2006 survey Presumed Equal: What America’s Top Women Lawyers Really Think About Their Firms, which examines the experiences and attitudes of women lawyers at the top law firms in the United States.
• Our minority partners are responsible for major clients, cases, and transactions, and a number of them are among the top business generators at the firm.
• Not only are women well represented in the partner ranks, they also serve in high positions in firm management, as heads of practice groups and committees.

Please visit our careers section to learn more about our commitment to diversity.