Track Record

Milestones

While Plunkett Cooney celebrates a number of achievements in diversity, we still have work to do in order to create a truly inclusive environment within the firm. Noted below are highlights of some of our accomplishments. Our diversity effort continues with enthusiasm.

2008

• First female African American elected to firm’s Board of Directors

2007

• First African American elected to firm’s Board of Directors
  

2006

• First African American practice group leader named
• Mandatory diversity training for all employees
• Plunkett Cooney launches Women’s Initiative for attorney development
  

2005

• First female elected Chair of firm’s Board of Directors
• Firm Chairman among featured corporate leaders at Thomas M. Cooley Law School panel discussion on diversity in the legal profession
• MultiCultural Law Magazine names Plunkett Cooney among its Top 100 Law Firms for Diversity
  

2004

• Firm issues first formal diversity plan
  

2003

• Board of Directors approve firm’s diversity statement
  

2002

• Diversity Committee formed
• First female Department Leader named

1994

• Firm publishes its professional objectives among which the firm states that it “will be vigilant to recruit the finest professional staff based upon merit, talent and ability. In that process, we will bring to our firm men and women of diverse racial, ethnic and religious backgrounds.”
  

1987

• First female shareholder named Office Managing Attorney
  

1983

• First African American shareholder named
• First female shareholder named