Recruiting the Best and Brightest

Throughout its history, Covington has sought lawyers who not only uphold our strong commitment to providing the highest quality legal representation to our clients, but also our firm belief in the importance of public service. As an ongoing part of our efforts to recruit lawyers who share these core commitments with us, we are working to increase the numbers of lawyers from diverse backgrounds at all levels of practice. These efforts include:

• National and School-Specific Law Student Groups. We support a variety of student groups at law schools throughout the country. We engage with these groups in meaningful ways, including speaking on panels regarding law firm life, attending job fairs and conferences, and meeting with law students in informal settings to discuss legal careers and to provide counseling on interviewing strategies. 
• Washington D.C. Road Show. The DC Road Show is a collective effort dating back to 1975, by several major DC law firms, to introduce Black law students to the Washington, DC market. DC law firms go “on the road” to visit law schools to meet with the law students in more informal settings and share with them the opportunities and advantages related to a career in Washington, DC. Covington Senior Counsel, Michael Baxter chairs the DC Road Show and Covington lawyers are active participants in Road Show events and panels.  
• Public Commitments. In Washington, New York, and San Francisco, our firm has joined with other major firms in making public commitments to increase diversity in our ranks. We are a founding member of the District of Columbia Conference on Opportunities for Minorities in the Legal Profession and an original signatory of the conference's Policy Statement Regarding Minority Hiring and Retention. We have a long history of serving vulnerable clients and important causes throughout the U.S. and the world through our pro bono work. We endorse the New York City Bar Association's Statement of Goals for Increasing Minority Representation and Retention. And we are a charter signatory of the No Glass Ceiling Initiative of the Bar Association of San Francisco. We are a signatory of the American Bar Association Pledge for Change and the American Bar Association Well-Being Campaign. We also support a number of organizations in our communities and nationally, such as the Asian American Bar Association, the Asian American Legal Defense Fund, the Asian Pacific Bar Association, the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund, the Hispanic National Bar Association, PFLAG, Lavender Law, the Women's National Bar Association, the National Women's Law Center, and the national partnership for Women and Families.