Firm Overview - Commitment to Diversity
Our Commitment to Our Professionals and Our Clients
BuckleySandler LLP is strongly committed to diversity. The Firm’s commitment is rooted in the belief that each individual’s unique background contributes a distinct and valuable perspective in our working environment, enriching the day-to-day experience of our professionals and enabling us to better serve our clients. BuckleySandler ensures broad-based diversity within the Firm by recruiting, retaining, and promoting professionals with diverse backgrounds including, but not limited to, diversity of race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and physical ability.
Converting Our Commitment into Action
The Firm has an active Diversity Committee chaired by Partner Jonice Gray Tucker, who recently was profiled in a Washingtonian magazine article focusing on paths to partnership. The Diversity Committee is charged with providing strategic guidance relative to the Firm’s mission of maintaining and further expanding diversity among its professionals.
BuckleySandler participates in diverse attorney recruiting initiatives spearheaded by top law schools and other affinity organizations. The Firm also is a proud sponsor of the D.C. Roadshow, through which it will participate in career development seminars for African-American students at law schools nationwide.
Over 40 percent of our attorneys are women, including over 25 percent of our Partners and approximately 50 percent of our Counsel. Approximately 20 percent of our attorneys are members of racial or ethnic minority groups.
Our attorneys are active participants in professional organizations that foster networking and interaction among members of diversity groups, including the National Bar Association, which serves African-American attorneys, the National Hispanic Bar Association, the National LGBT Bar Association, and Women in Housing and Finance.
Our Commitment to the Community At-Large
BuckleySandler’s commitment to diversity is reflected not only in our working environment, but also in our community. Many of our attorneys serve as directors of non-profit organizations that are focused on achieving parity for diverse members of our society. For example:
- Partner Ben Klubes is a long-standing member of the Board of Directors of the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, which represents individuals and groups with discrimination claims in a broad range of civil rights cases.
- Partners Andy Sandler and Jonice Gray Tucker are co-founders and Board Members of the Financial Literacy Foundation, an organization that teaches courses on key financial skills to underserved young people in the Washington, D.C. area, the majority of whom are African-American and Hispanic.
- Partner Jerry Buckley serves on the Board of Directors of the The Youth Leadership Foundation (YLF), a nonprofit organization that serves disadvantaged youth from Washington D.C.'s inner city by boosting academic performance while developing their character. YLF operates two supplemental educational programs for Washington area minority students, the Tenley Achievement Program for boys and the Program for Academic and Leadership Skills for girls.
In addition, BuckleySandler was proud to co-sponsor the Washington, D.C., premiere of Thurgood, an acclaimed play about the life of Justice Thurgood Marshall, which recently opened at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Proceeds from the event benefited the HistoryMakers, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving, developing, and providing access to an internationally recognized archival collection of African-American oral histories.
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