Diversity
Retention, Advancement and Promotion
MTO’s leadership in diversity hiring and retention is also shown by comparison to the 2009 statistics from the National Association of Law Placement. The firm surpasses national averages for diversity recruiting and maintains figures similar to firms of its size in the Los Angeles area. The association reported that nationally (in law firms with 101 to 250 lawyers), women averaged 30 percent of total lawyers and minorities were 9 percent. Comparatively, in 2009, 33 percent of MTO’s attorneys were women and 25 percent were minorities. Both attorneys who made partner in 2010 are women; one is also a minority and the other works on a part-time basis. The prior year, 67 percent of the attorneys who made partner were women or minorities. To help retain and advance women and minorities, the firm offers both formal and informal mentoring and networks to all attorneys. The firm also has a flexible part time policy, provides backup child care, and is one of the first West Coast law firms to provide a state-of-the-art onsite child care center, which opened to MTO families in January 2010.
