At Andrews Kurth Kenyon, “straight talk” guides everything we do. It’s how we converse with clients, colleagues, courts—and even our adversaries. It means we pursue issues head-on, rather than detouring into legalese. It means we cut through the confusion and find simple solutions to help our clients succeed.
Decades ago, our founder Frank Andrews envisioned a firm where every individual practiced law in a manner “that the firm would have always the full confidence of clients and the trust of all people.” Since 1902, we have worked to live up to this founding goal by embracing an unwavering set of core values. We deliver unsurpassed client service, focusing on our clients’ needs and objectives.
To ensure success, we consistently hire the best and brightest, value diversity and inclusion in our workforce, practice internal cooperation and mutual respect, and thoughtfully manage and deploy our institutional resources. These values formed our foundation in the last century, and our firm stands strongly upon them to this day.
At our firm, diversity and inclusion are core values and our approach is strategic, hence the tagline: Collaborate * Align * Perform. Having diversity and inclusion as core values is more than just the right thing to do—it is a key to our growth and success, as well as the success of our clients. We may have been first among our peers to have a partner dedicated full-time to diversity and inclusion strategy.
We recognize that women and members of historically underrepresented groups bring distinct views and life experiences that allow us to transcend cultural, gender and political issues around the globe. We have a Diversity Committee and a Women’s Initiative Team, which works to recruit, retain and advance our female lawyers through networking and mentoring opportunities and innovative policies such as Flex Path, a reduced hour partnership track. We strive to lead the way in the area of diversity and inclusion, creating and retaining a high-performance team of diverse legal professionals for our clients.