Diversity Committee

Andrews Myers recognizes that diversity of ideas, backgrounds, and experience are essential to providing the best legal representation to our clients. We believe that a more diverse law firm is a better law firm. Our commitment to diversity is an important core value, and we prohibit any form of discrimination.

The mission statement of our Diversity Committee is to promote diversity, equity and inclusion within the firm as a vital and transparent part of our firm culture by incorporating diversity in our hiring practices, leadership, community involvement, education, marketing, and firm activities. We focus on individual initiative, skills, performance, and hard work, and prohibit any form of illegal discrimination. We strive for organizational effort and a practice in which different groups or individuals having different backgrounds are culturally and socially accepted and embraced, as well as respected.

We are committed to:

• Successfully recruiting, developing and retaining attorneys and staff from a multitude of nationalities, cultures, ethnicities and life experiences.
• Interviewing and hiring based on initiative, skills, performance and hard work.
• Rewarding and recognizing everyone’s successes, activities and achievements within the firm, clients and community.
• Making financial contributions inside and outside the firm to further our goals.
• Cultivating an attitude of inclusion, respect and dignity in the workplace.
• Providing effective mentoring and sponsorship within our firm and the community at large.

We have taken the following concrete steps to ensure that diversity and inclusion is a priority at Andrews Myers:

• Members of the Diversity Committee are active participants in the overall On-Campus Interviews (OCI) and Hiring Committee for the recruitment of summer law clerk candidates.
• We support the Houston Bar Association’s 1L Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Summer Clerkship and Mentoring Program, and will continue to look to this Program as a pipeline for talented first-year law students.
• Andrews Myers is a Bronze Underwriter of the Hispanic Bar Association of Houston‘s 34^th Annual Gala
• Andrews Myers is a sponsor of the Hispanic National Bar Foundation Future Latino Leaders Summer Law Institute program in Washington, DC
• Andrews Myers supports the National Association of Women Judges – Color of Justice Program.
• Andrews Myers is a sponsor of the Associated Builders and Contractors ID&E Program efforts.
• Andrews Myers was a lead sponsor of the Holocaust Museum Houston’s “Notorious RBG” exhibit.
• Andrews Myers is a supporter of Houston Community College’s Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), and sponsor of their Salute to Minorities in Construction program.
• The Andrews Myers’ Women’s Initiative program