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Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C.

Recognition

1. In 2018, the Firm appointed new chairs to the Diversity Committee, Women's Initiative Group and Recruiting Committee. The chairs of these committees meet on a routine (typically monthly) basis and now collaborate on their respective goals and the aggregate goals of the committees.

 

2. The Firm reconstituted all three committees with new members to gain fresh and re-energized perspectives.

 

3. The three committees actively work together with these common goals: (a) increase diversity awareness; (b) improve the recruitment, retention, and advancement of diverse attorneys; and (c) provide direct feedback to management concerning issues that may affect goals (a) and (b) above, and how best to address those issues.

 

4. In 2017, the Women’s Initiative Group suggested changes to the Firm's parental leave policy for attorneys. As a result of the group’s proposal, the Firm's written policy was changed as follows: (a) paid leave for primary caregivers was extended by 2 weeks (from 12 to 14 weeks total); (b) in the month before parental leave begins and in the month following return from parental leave, the attorney-primary caregiver’s billable hour expectation is reduced by 25%; and (c) 2 weeks of paid secondary caregiver leave was added. In addition to the foregoing, the Firm also adjusts the annual billable hour expectation for attorneys taking primary or secondary caregiver leave to account for the attorney’s absence during his or her leave (which has been a long-standing Firm policy).

 

5. The Firm received the Travis County Women Lawyers’ Association’s outstanding firm award for 2017, which recognized Munsch Hardt as “an organization that hires and retains significant numbers of women and/or adheres to progressive work place policies, such as innovative job sharing, day care, flex and part-time programs, and alternative partnership tracks.”

 

6. The Firm engaged Milk Stork to provide breast milk shipment services to our women attorneys who are breastfeeding and need to travel for work.

 

7. The Firm extends same-sex benefits to all employees.

 

8. The Firm is instituting mandatory implicit bias training for all attorneys and staff.

 

9. The Firm expanded its participation in the Sunbelt Minority Recruitment Program, a consortium of 18 American Bar Association law schools from six states (Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana) that offers legal employers the opportunity to interview law students for summer employment and permanent positions. The Firm also increased the number of offers extended to Sunbelt candidates.

 

10. The Firm holds quarterly Women’s Initiative Group events. For two of the events, women from all three of the Firm’s offices are invited to attend in person (with the Firm covering costs relating to travel, lodging and meals). For the other two events, women in our Austin and Houston offices attend via teleconference. Meetings have included: (a) a roundtable where senior female attorneys shared business development strategies and successes with junior attorneys; (b) an educational event regarding gender roles and implicit bias; and (c) social events aimed at encouraging our female colleagues to connect, learn more about one another’s practices and establish informal mentor relationships.

 

11. The Firm is participating in the University of Houston Pre-Law Pipeline Program and will host a demographically or socio-economically diverse pre-law student for a paid, 10-week summer internship at the Firm. A unique feature of the program includes partnership with an in-house corporate legal department, whereby the student not only will be exposed to the private law firm environment at the Firm, but also to the unique dynamic of an in-house legal environment.

 

12. The Firm supports/sponsors the following organizations: - African American Lawyers Annual Summit - Asian American Bar Association of Houston - Attorneys Serving the Community - Austin Asian American Bar Association - Austin Young Lawyer’s Association – Runway to Justice - Central Texas Girl Scouts, Lone Star Council - Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Network - Dallas Asian American Bar Association - Dallas Bar Association – J. L. Turner Legal Association - Dallas Bar Association – Women’s Equality Day Luncheon - Dallas Bar Association’s Community Service Fund - Dallas Bar Foundation – Sarah T. Hughes Diversity Scholarship - Dallas Hispanic Bar Association - Dallas Mayor’s Intern Fund - Dallas Women Lawyers Association - Equal Access to Justice Campaign - Generation Justice - The Girls School of Austin - Greater Houston LGBT Chamber of Commerce - Houston Association of Women Attorneys - Houston Heights Woman’s Club - Houston Hispanic Bar Association - National Asian Pacific American Bar Association - National Association of Women Lawyers - Philippine-American Chamber of Commerce - Southlake Women’s Club - Texas A&M Black Law Students Association - Texas Minority Counsel Program - Travis County Women Lawyers’ Association - Vision Africa Ministries, Inc. - Women Contractors Association - Young Women’s Preparatory Network

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