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Our Values
O'Melveny is a values-driven law firm, guided by the principles of excellence, leadership, and citizenship. Our dedication to improving access to justice through pro bono work, championing initiatives that increase the diversity of the legal profession, and fostering a collegial, supportive, and talent development-focused Firm culture, are all examples of our values in action. Our values provide the benchmark for our collective and individual conduct and direction—in short, everything we do. Excellence, leadership, and citizenship are integral to all aspects of Firm life—ranging from Firm governance and management; to recruiting, compensation, evaluation, and advancement decisions; to our approach to client service.
The Firm's commitment to Uncompromising Excellence is achieved through:
- Identifying and attracting superior and diverse lawyers
- Providing thorough training, mentoring, regular feedback, client contact, and a meaningful career track for associates and counsel
- Building on the highest quality lawyering and dedicated client service to maintain first-tier status
- Compensating by merit and promoting when ready
- Blending individual brilliance, good judgment, and teamwork to put the best team on the field – partnered with managers, staff, and strong technology – to help clients achieve their business goals
The Firm's commitment to Distinctive Leadership is demonstrated by:
- Devising innovative approaches to help clients to solve their problems and achieve their goals
- Establishing a global or national reputation as a lawyer – through writing, speaking, and practicing – so as to appeal to important clients
- Building and maintaining an environment where individual risk-taking is encouraged and creative people can flourish
- Leading departments, practice groups, and offices to breakthrough success
- Making diversity, in the broadest sense, work
- Achieving community or national leadership that reflects favorably on the Firm
The Firm's commitment to Superior Citizenship is exemplified by:
- Unflinching integrity and ethics
- Communication, cooperation, and camaraderie to achieve a cohesive partnership
- Respect for each other and for differing views, civility, and constructive candor in relationships, and loyalty to each other and to the Firm
- Commitment to steady improvement of the Firm
- Providing opportunities for colleagues, and thus bringing the best of the Firm to clients
- Participating in pro bono and other volunteer services to aid our communities and our nation
- Nurturing all members of the O’Melveny community (partners, counsel, associates, managers, paralegals, and staff) to ensure that we all feel a stake in our collective enterprise
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Each year the Firm recognizes two partners, two counsel or associates, and two staff members who exemplify our values of uncompromising excellence, distinctive leadership, and superior citizenship. Click below to view the 2008 honorees.
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"The values are a legacy passed down from our leaders, many of whom have been at the forefront of historic moments not only for the profession but the entire nation. I think that when all of us come to work everyday, we feel that legacy in a very real way. Any law firm can say they are values driven, but when you sit down and talk to Bill Coleman about what it was like to be there with Thurgood Marshall during Brown v. Board of Education—that's the epitome of distinctive leadership and citizenship."
Brian Brooks, Partner
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