DENVER (July 28, 2008) - Chevron presented Holland & Hart with its 2008 Law Firm Diversity Recognition Award last week. This award recognizes the firm's commitment to promoting diversity in the legal field. As part of the award, Chevron will donate $5,000 in Holland & Hart's name to the Colorado Campaign for Inclusive Excellence (CCIE).
"We are immensely honored to be a recipient of this award," said John Husband, Chair of the firm's Management Committee. "Holland & Hart is committed to promoting diversity and inclusiveness within the legal profession, and being recognized by Chevron, a leader in diversity worldwide, reinforces the firm's core values."
Holland & Hart chose CCIE as the recipient of the $5,000 donation from Chevron. CCIE is the nation's first and only inclusiveness effort promoted by private and public sector leaders of the Colorado legal community. The Campaign's mission is that "by the year 2016, all Colorado law firms, corporate legal departments and public sector legal agencies will have successfully developed and implemented initiatives that create cultures of inclusion where attorneys of all backgrounds succeed without regard to gender, race, religion, national origin, disability, or sexual orientation." Holland & Hart selected CCIE for the donation because CCIE is aimed at helping legal organizations achieve the inclusiveness that Chevron and Holland & Hart have made an integral part of their counsel relationship and respective business strategies.
Holland & Hart has long been a leader in promoting diversity within the legal and business communities. The firm was the first law firm in the Rocky Mountain region to offer a $10,000 Summer Associate Diversity Scholarship for second year law students. Also, the firm began an Academic Year Diversity Law Clerk Program.
At the Law Firm Diversity Awards event held in mid-July, Chevron also recognized Kean Miller Hawthorne D'Armond McCowan & Jarman LLP, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and Filice Brown Eassa & McLeod LLP for their diversity efforts.