Recognition by the US Legal Community

The legal community is taking note of Howrey’s efforts:

• Earned the top rating of 100 percent in the 2009 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), an annual survey administered by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. Howrey joins the ranks of 259 other major US businesses that received top marks for their treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) employees.
  
  
• Ranked #1 Washington DC-based firm in minority attorneys for the third straight year and 17th nationwide, and top 10 nationwide in minority partners in Minority Law Journal’s "2007 Diversity Scorecard."
  
  
• Ranked 2nd on Law Students Building a Better Legal Profession’s 2007 Diversity Report Card for Washington DC. This ground-breaking study by a national grassroots coalition of law students compares the largest law firms in each of six top legal markets by various metrics.
  
  
• Selected in the 2007 "Best Law Firms for Women" by Working Mother magazine and Flex-Time Lawyers LLC, a national consulting firm advising attorneys and legal employers on work / life balance and retaining and promoting women.
  
  
• Ranked one of the top five most diverse California firms by percentage of partners who are people of color in California Lawyer's "The California 50."
  
  
• Recipient of the "2003 Minority Corporate Counsel Association Thomas L. Sager Award" for the Mid-Atlantic Region, presented to law firms that have demonstrated sustained commitment to improve the hiring, retention and promotion of minority and women attorneys.