Peck Shaffer

Diversity

Achieving, encouraging and supporting diversity is part of the Peck Shaffer firm culture.  We make continuous efforts to renew and re-evaluate our commitment to inclusiveness.  We believe that having a culturally diverse firm enriches our practice by expanding the varied perspectives needed to create innovative ideas and solutions for our clients.  The diversity thread permeates through our entire firm, from the management, to the attorneys and to the staff. 

• At the management level, 40 percent of the members of our firm Management Committee are either women or minorities. 
  
• 19 percent of our attorneys belong to a minority class.
  Ronald Bell
  John Merchant
  Sujyot Patel
  Susan Pease Langford
  Kwali Farbes
  Lewis Diaz
  Romana Kaleem
  Everett Martinez
  
• 13 percent of our partners belong to a minority class.
  
• 31 percent of our attorneys and 28 percent of our partners are women.
  
• Peck Shaffer was the second law firm in the City of Cincinnati to promote an African American attorney to partnership. 
  
• 40 percent of the new associate hires since 2005 have been minorities.
  
• 69 percent of the new associate hires since 2005 have been women.

Our attorneys are members and officers of various minority professional organizations, and organizations that advance minority initiatives, such as the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials, the National Association of Securities Professionals, the National Bar Association and the National Forum for Black Public Administrators.  Peck Shaffer attorneys are also involved in promoting diversity in their communities as highlighted in our Community Service section.

Peck Shaffer's Women's Public Finance Forum

Peck Shaffer organized the Women's Public Finance Forum to focus on the development of relationships with women professionals and community leaders and to provide a forum for women colleagues to discuss issues that are relevant to women in the Firm and legal community. As a support network for our female attorneys, information is shared on successful marketing techniques and business challenges, and mentoring is provided to the younger attorneys. Our Women's Forum sponsors monthly meetings which cover a variety of topics.

Peck Shaffer's Minority Public Finance Forum

The Minority Public Finance Forum meets quarterly to discuss a variety of topics and focuses on two main objectives: exploring the development of new and on-going relationships with minority professionals and community leaders and discussing issues relevant to minority attorneys both at Peck Shaffer and throughout the legal community.  The Minority Public Finance Forum functions as a support network, providing guidance, feedback and mentoring for young attorneys, including tools to continually improve their practice through the development of new marketing techniques and the discussion of a variety of business challenges.

We have a strong interest in promoting diversity in the legal community for generations to come. We are proud participants in the Summer Work Experience in Law program.  We annually offer a summer position to a minority student who is interested in pursuing a legal career.

Diversity is another tradition that clients can expect from Peck Shaffer.