Diversity

Niles, Barton & Wilmer, LLP’s Commitment to Diversity

At Niles, Barton & Wilmer, LLP, we understand and appreciate the differences in our workforce and utilize those differences to enhance our ability as legal professionals to communicate and solve problems unique to our clients.  Diversity, as we define it, encompasses all persons regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, as well as educational or professional backgrounds.

We engage in outreach to ensure that we portray the legal profession in a manner appealing to all persons.  We also take initiatives to hire, retain and promote individuals of all backgrounds.

• Our Hiring Committee actively engages with a diverse pool of applicants, including men and women of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds.  The members of the Hiring Committee actively seek to diversify our applicant pool.
• Niles, Barton & Wilmer Women’s Committee - At Niles, Barton and Wilmer, LLP, we understand that there are issues unique to women in the workplace, whether those issues involve our attorneys or our clients.  As a part of the Firm’s commitment to diversity, we have a Women’s Committee that endeavors to provide female attorneys with the skill to become successful through mentoring, intensive training and continuing legal education geared towards women in law.  Externally, our Women’s Committee focuses its networking efforts on other women in the workforce through events that are unique and distinct to women.  
• LawLinks – The Firm actively participates with local schools in Baltimore City to provide students with summer internships that are designed to encourage students with diverse backgrounds to consider law as a career.
• Female attorneys and attorneys of color are encouraged to pursue positions of leadership inside and outside of the Firm.  The Firm’s Hiring Committee is chaired by a woman and includes women and attorneys of color.  Our female attorneys sit on many Committee that are unique to their area of law, which include the Associated Builders & Contractors, Inc, Baltimore Metro Chapter, Small Business Committee and Women in Business Committee and the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) to name a few.
• Our policies, including leave and part-time employment, encourage individual lawyers to make the best decisions for themselves and their families and are designed to promote retention.

All applicants for employment and all employees are treated in all respects on the basis of their merit and qualifications, and without regard to race, religion, sex, color, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.