Diversity

 

Rutan's Diversity Commitment

Rutan & Tucker recruits, retains and promotes talented professionals from a variety of backgrounds and skill sets, resulting in a culture that thrives on a variety of perspectives. Diversity is a valued and important part of our culture in all of the ways it is defined. Our work environment is characterized by respect for others, encouragement for all to excel and equal opportunity for everyone.

Recognizing the significant benefits and value of a diverse work force, Rutan & Tucker is committed to increasing the diversity of our law firm in a manner that promotes the firm's core values of excellence, teamwork, and integrity. As the largest full-service law firm based in Orange County, California, Rutan has played an active role in the County's maturation into a world-class metropolitan area that reflects the richness of California's cultural diversity. We strive to achieve that same result within our law firm, acknowledging diversity as a collective asset that benefits our firm, our clients, and our community.

Diversity at Rutan means more than a guarantee of equality of opportunity in hiring, compensation, promotion and career development. Rutan's commitment to diversity is a permanent and ongoing part of firm management, as embodied in Rutan's Recruiting and Diversity Committees. Our Recruiting Committee's efforts to bring outstanding new lawyers of varied backgrounds to Rutan have resulted in new associate classes consisting of more than 50 percent women and 33 percent persons of color over the past three years.

The Diversity Committee's primary task is to assist in retaining and promoting women attorneys and associates of all cultures, backgrounds, and lifestyles who might face particular challenges in a traditional law firm environment. We are pleased that a majority of Rutan's newest partners are women and minorities.

The Diversity Committee ensures mentorship through the firm's diversity mentor program, and senior Committee members conduct small group meetings with associates to encourage open dialogue on issues of concern. The Diversity Committee also encourages the firm's attorneys to participate in diversity-promoting projects outside of the firm, such as those sponsored by the Orange County Diversity Task Force (of which Rutan is a founding member) and minority bar associations.

At Rutan we view our commitment to diversity as inseparable from our commitment to excellence.