Diversity and Inclusion
Diversity is a core value of Keller and Heckman. We are deeply committed to recruiting, hiring, mentoring, and advancing team members of diverse backgrounds and experiences.
At Keller and Heckman, we recognize that our differences strengthen us as individuals and reinforce our abilities collectively. We pride ourselves on the fact that Keller and Heckman is a firm of well-rounded professionals who bring a diverse range of perspectives and backgrounds to our work – key to our ability to provide our clients with the best possible legal counsel. Diversity is a core value, and we are deeply committed to recruiting, hiring, mentoring, and advancing professionals with diverse backgrounds and experiences at Keller and Heckman.
Minority Corporate Counsel Association
As part of our overall commitment to enhancing diversity in the legal profession, we are a law firm member of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA). Through our involvement with the MCCA and in other fora, we have participated in recruitment and networking opportunities with candidates with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Because our legal practice often involves a sophisticated blending of law and science, we are able to attract talented students and lawyers with diverse backgrounds and experiences who are interested in a technology-based legal practice. We are proud to have earned the MCCA Approved 2023 Bronze Seal.
Mansfield Certification
Keller and Heckman is dedicated to maintaining a diverse workplace by expanding opportunities in leadership positions and beyond. As part of our efforts, we are involved with Diversity Lab’s Mansfield Certification process, a structured certification process designed to ensure all talent at participating law firms and legal departments has a fair and equal opportunity to advance into leadership.
This science-backed and data-driven inclusive sourcing process helps boost inclusivity, equal access, and transparency in advancement processes and leadership roles at
participating organizations. The approach emphasizes “opening the door wider” to create transparent and inclusive opportunities for all. Keller and Heckman is proud to have attained the Mansfield Certification for midsize law firms for the second consecutive year, and is currently pursuing next year’s certification, which runs from July 2024 through July 2025. Read more about the certification here.
Diversity and Inclusion Committee
Diversity, in all aspects, is a key goal of the Firm, and we have established a Diversity and Inclusion Committee to actively foster and promote this goal. We welcome and encourage diversity within Keller and Heckman at all levels. By joining together people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, we enhance our creativity, our knowledge, and our ability to understand and respond to the needs of our diverse clientele.