Miller Canfield enjoys and employs a diverse legal team including lawyers, paralegals and administrative staff. Our goal is to increase inclusion and mirror the clients we represent and the communities in which we reside and do business. Our summer associate classes for the last three years have averaged 40% minorities and 50% women. At Miller Canfield, we believe that diversity is a catalyst for growth, innovation and change.
Our internal Diversity Committee meets to review employment attraction and retention initiatives and goals. Our Multi-Cultural Committee provides forums for learning and supports involvement in dozens of organizations including the Wolverine and Metropolitan Bar Associations; the Asian Pacific American Chamber of Commerce; the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Lawyers Committee; the Detroit Chinese Business Association; INFORUM; and the Michigan Women’s Foundation (Kalamazoo lawyer Pam Enslen serves on that Board and Detroit lawyer Beverly Hall Burns is a past president). Miller Canfield lawyer James L. Liggins, Jr., created and was elected in 2011 to serve as the first president of The Judge Charles A. Pratt Bar Association, the Kalamazoo area’s first minority bar association. Leonard Givens, Miller Canfield’s first African-American CEO, incorporated the Michigan Minority Business Development Council.
For nearly 10 years, The Women of Miller Canfield have addressed internal advancement issues and hosted frequent networking and informational activities for women clients, colleagues and friends with the goal of developing relationships and resources to help all women achieve greater success.
Given our multi-national markets and presence, we are active in dozens of international business, trade, professional and legal organizations, especially those engaging Canadian, Polish, Chinese, Asian Indian, Mexican and Korean members and constituents. Our lawyers are fluent in 20+ languages.
Miller Canfield is an “Honor Roll” member of the Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion and a member of the Unity Michigan Coalition which works to protect the LGBT commitment statewide. Miller Canfield recently sponsored and presented the Outstanding Diversity Award for the Kalamazoo Chamber of Commerce.
Upon accepting on behalf of the firm the Great American Traditions Award in March 2012 from B’nai B’rith International, CEO Michael Hartmann said, “One of the reasons I joined the Firm in 1975 was because it had then a long-standing reputation for public service and diversity. It is our obligation as a steward of that tradition to support and enhance it.”
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