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Zelle Hofmann serves global and increasingly diverse clients, who gain from the varied perspectives, creativity, innovation and energy created by a diverse and inclusive workforce. The firm is committed to maintaining an environment in which its lawyers and staff are valued for their unique backgrounds, personal characteristics, and thinking and working styles. Attracting top-quality talent is crucial to our success and we seek out such skilled individuals from a wide-spectrum of backgrounds and characteristics.
We are committed to achieving diversity through recruiting, nurturing the trust and open discussions that promote inclusiveness, and experimenting with ways to enable our attorneys to achieve work/life balance while fully contributing to serving our clients.
Recently, Zelle Hofmann's “Zealous Women” announced the launch of www.zealouswomen.com, a Web site focused on female attorneys and women in dispute resolution. The site’s goal is to provide a forum where all women who resolve disputes on a daily basis, in both their professional and personal lives, can celebrate their successes and consider the complexities of trying to find that work/life balance.
Zelle Hofmann also works with its clients to encourage diversity when practical. As an example, the firm successfully petitioned a San Francisco Superior Court administering a class action antitrust settlement to authorize the distribution of $40 million to more than 100 non-profit organizations in California, including the California Women's Law Center, Asian Law Caucus, Inc., and several California-based United Way organizations. This distribution was part of a $96 million settlement that was approved by the state court in San Francisco, California in 2008, and became final earlier this year. For additional information regarding this case and the overall settlement, please click here.
Zelle Hofmann is a strong supporter of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association and has given generous donations to their Lloyd M. Johnson, Jr. Scholarship Program supporting college seniors entering law school, with a particular interest in corporate law.
To see an overview of our firm's diversity commitment, please click here. If you have additional questions related to Zelle Hofmann's diversity efforts, please feel free to contact our Diversity Coordinator, Patricia St. Peter.