Diversity Statement

At Polsinelli Shughart, innovation is our credo. We provide new and creative approaches that respond efficiently and effectively to our clients' ever-changing needs. To encourage innovation, we continually seek to diversify our perspectives. We recognize that we can best do so by attracting, retaining, and mentoring the best legal and professional talent available, which includes recruiting attorneys and other staff members with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We value what diversity can bring: new approaches to tackling our clients' legal issues; enhancement of the Polsinelli Shughart culture; and vital connections to the communities in which we live and work.

We are committed to ensuring that all individuals at Polsinelli Shughart realize their potential and perform at a superior level. The firm provides opportunities, training and mentoring to maximize the potential and performance of all employees, attorneys, supervisors and managers. By providing equitable treatment and respect for our differences, we are better able to work together as a team to provide unparalleled service to our clients.

Polsinelli Shughart is committed to creating an environment in which diverse individuals - whether the diversity is race, gender, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, socio-economic background, marital or parental status - feel welcome and contribute to providing excellent legal service.

Polsinelli Shughart has shareholders and other attorneys with diverse ethnic backgrounds. Our lawyers will continue to reflect the ethnic diversity of the Bars of the cities in which we have offices. While we strive for greater diversity than that of legal communities in which we have offices, we will accept no less.