Diversity Commitment

As an intellectual property law firm with both national and international clients, Lee & Hayes is committed to recruiting and retaining a professional workforce that reflects the rich cultural and ethnic diversity of our client base and our community. We believe our clients are enriched by working with a diverse group of exceptional attorneys who, through different perspectives and experiences, allow us to undertake more creative thinking and to produce more innovative solutions. A diverse group of professionals enables us to bring a broader perspective to the problems our clients face, leads to a higher quality of work, and also enriches the work atmosphere itself.

Recruiting
Lee & Hayes is striving to recruit and retain diverse attorneys so that all attorneys, regardless of their background, are included, valued, supported, and given the tools to succeed. Lee & Hayes seeks to recruit and retain attorneys who possess varying perspectives, life experiences, and diverse backgrounds. To attain this goal, the firm undertakes focused and targeted efforts through participation in minority law school association events and through active participation in specialty and minority bar associations.

Retention
Lee & Hayes wants to ensure that all our attorneys are provided full access to opportunities that will allow them to flourish in their practice and at the firm. We are committed not only to hiring exceptional candidates, but also to providing them appropriate work assignments, mentoring, training, and client networking opportunities that ultimately will allow them to rise to positions of substantial responsibility both within the firm and with our clients.

Firm Culture
The Lee & Hayes culture is team-oriented, relaxed, and balanced. Along with being outstanding attorneys, some of us are also mountain climbers, sailors, parents, backpackers, skiers, photographers, golfers, cyclists, runners, volunteers, and active members of our faith communities. We are not a traditional law firm, but rather a group of diverse individuals working toward a common goal of providing excellent service to our clients. Lee & Hayes strives to create and maintain an environment and firm culture that allows individuals to enjoy their work and their colleagues, while balancing their work with their personal lives. Lee & Hayes promotes an environment which fosters both commitment to clients and commitment to our families and our communities.

Diversity Committee
Lee & Hayes has a standing Diversity Committee, charged with the responsibility of developing and maintaining a diverse workforce. The Diversity Committee is comprised of members with a wide variety of personal and professional backgrounds, including the CEO, attorneys, and professional staff. These individuals share a strong commitment to increasing the Firm’s diversity and use their unique experiences and backgrounds to support and further those objectives. The Diversity Committee meets regularly to formulate and implement firm goals and specific diversity initiatives.

At Lee & Hayes, we are committed to creating and maintaining a diverse workplace that promotes equality and fairness to all. We continually self-monitor to ensure that we’re meeting our diversity goals and we take action to promote awareness of employment opportunities, develop internal talent and attract qualified applicants from non-traditional sources to ensure we hire and promote the best that our workforce has to offer. Our diverse workforce helps position us to appeal to diverse clients. We promote skills in understanding others as ways to generate better ideas, to avoid problems and to move us toward our mission with greater success.

Client First
We represent world-class clients. We put our clients' interests and success ahead of our own. We treat each client as if they are our only client so that our service to each is unparalleled. L&H tailors its practices to the needs of each client, recognizing that we serve them. If we serve our clients well, our own success will follow.