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Our Diversity Goals
• Our Commitment to Diversity At Helsell Fetterman, we know that achieving and maintaining diversity is key to providing businesses, organizations, and individuals with exceptional solutions to their legal problems. We embrace our responsibility of maintaining a workplace of inclusion, recognizing that our clients are best served by a team of attorneys and staff that is as diverse as the world in which we practice. For this reason, we take great pride in having a collegial, informal, and entrepreneurial environment where people are encouraged to be themselves, learn from one another, voice their ideas, and chart their own paths. BACK TO TOPHelsell Fetterman has participated in the Puget Sound Area Minority Clerkship Program for a decade. We hired a 1L student for an internship in 2010. We also hired our 2009 1L intern from this program to return as our 2010 2L Summer Associate. We participated in the 2009 Northwest Minority Job Fair. BACK TO TOPCommunity Participation and Sponsorships 2010 Helsell Fetterman is a 2010 Gold Sponsor of the Statewide Diversity Conference and the King County Bar Association Martin Luther King, Jr. Lunch. We sponsored the 2010 Q-Law Banquet. Three lawyers and one staff member are participating in the Future of the Law Institute, providing ongoing mentorship to high school student considering careers in law. We hired a FLI high school intern. 2009 Helsell Fetterman is a Gold Sponsor of the Statewide Diversity Conference. Four lawyers and one staff member participated in the Future of the Law Institute. One summer high school intern was hired through the program. 
Helsell Fetterman attorneys and staff joined together with Habitat for Humanity and their AmeriCorp volunteers to work on the construction of a home in the Rainier Valley neighborhood of Seattle. We were Table Sponsors for the Fifth Annual Spring Breakfast of the Austin Foundation, an organization devoted to promoting health and fitness for youths in communities where that need is greatest. Helsell Fetterman sponsored the 2009 QLaw Banquet and the Latina/o Banquet. We participated in the 2009 Asian Counseling and Referral Service Walk for Rice. Helsell Fetterman team members volunteered at a Guest Chef Night at FareStart in December. 2008 Helsell Fetterman participated in the 2008 Washington Minority Bar Association Statewide Diversity Conference. We placed Youthforce student participants in positions in our firm. We sponsored the Asian Bar Association of Washington Scholarship Dinner, the Vietnamese American Bar Association of Washington Annual Dinner and the QLaw FallTacular and the QLaw Banquet. We sponsored the Lambda Legal Garden Party, the Northwest Women's Law Center's Annual Dinner, the Human Rights Campaign Dinner, and the YouthForce fund-raising dinner. 
A team of volunteer walkers raised money in the 2008 Asian Counseling and Referral Service Walk for Rice. Helsell Fetterman provided sponsorship to the Loren Miller Bar Association Burton Scholarship Dinner. A group volunteered for one of the 2008 FareStart Guest Chef Nights. We sponsored the 2008 Mother Attorneys Mentoring Association of Seattle Lunch Conference. BACK TO TOPIn 2010 and 2008, Helsell Fetterman was recognized as one on the top three law firms in the state for diversity efforts by the Minority Bar Associations of Washington Joint Committee on Law Firm Diversity. The biennial survey, sent to the top fifty firms in the state, identifies firms that support overall diversity through hard factors such as demographics and soft factors such as diversity programs. In October 2008, Helsell Fetterman, LLP was recognized by the Puget Sound Association of Legal Administrators with their Achievements in Diversity Award for firms with fewer than fifty attorneys. BACK TO TOPMinority Bar and Legal Associations
In 2008, we began reaching out to minority bar associations and seeking their input on how best to achieve our goals in diversity. To date we have met with the Loren Miller Bar Association, the Latina/Latino Bar Association, the Vietnamese American Bar Association of Washington and MELAW (Middle Eastern Legal Association of Washington). BACK TO TOPWhen surveyed, the attorneys and staff of Helsell Fetterman shared information about their personal volunteer activities. Within our firm there are people volunteering at the following organizations:
We are pleased to know that Helsell Fetterman LLP is made up of individuals who are dedicated to volunteerism and community outreach. BACK TO TOPIn 2004, Helsell Fetterman collaborated with Lambda Legal and Northwest Women's Law Center on Andersen v. King County, an important case regarding the legality of same sex marriage. It was a contribution of time, energy and resources that we were proud to make in the furtherance of the recognition of equal rights.. BACK TO TOP |
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