WE THINK BUSINESS.
Godfrey & Kahn provides high-level service and creative legal solutions to its clients. For nearly 60 years, our attorneys and staff have been guided by five core values originally set forth by our founders: A focus on our clients’ success, trust in one another and our clients, a culture of teamwork that helps us achieve more together, a work ethic to achieve whatever is possible, and an integrity that keeps us focused on the right thing to do for our clients, our employees and our communities.
Our firm was founded on a simple idea – judge our success by the success of our clients. We serve clients by first understanding their business and their needs, and then by offering strategic legal advice and smart, practical solutions to real world problems. Our attorneys are quick to collaborate in the interest of client success and service their needs with efficiency and responsiveness. With six locations across Wisconsin and in Washington D.C., our attorneys have made it a point to become an integral part of the communities they serve. Whether we are taking on pro bono cases, supporting environmental causes, or offering university scholarships to promising students, we’re proud to be strengthening bonds with our neighbors, within our firm and in our global business community.
We believe that our law firm, and the communities in which we live and work, must be committed to building a professional and cultural environment of inclusion.
We have long embraced the principles of equal employment opportunity and recognize that promoting diversity is an integral component to our success as individuals and as a firm. We also believe that a diverse workforce improves our judgment and helps us to better understand our clients and our clients’ needs. As the business community grows more diverse and increasingly global, we know that our commitment to diversity will enhance the quality of our work and our lives for the better of our employees and clients.
It is this commitment that drives the firm’s Diversity Committee to foster our firm values like teamwork and a sense of integrity while promoting diversity in all facets of the firm’s business. We know promoting diversity and inclusion starts within. We remain committed to recruiting and engaging our attorneys and staff from diverse backgrounds that reflect the varied circumstances of the clients and communities we serve. We know that leadership is a key component to institute and maintain a diverse workforce and that is one of the reasons the firm instituted the Women’s Leadership Forum, a vital firm resource that focuses on providing education and leadership opportunities to its female attorneys.
Our commitment to diversity goes beyond the firm’s doors. We provide fellowships to those in our diverse communities to advance their legal educational and leadership opportunities. We are active participants in numerous nonprofit community events for organizations that help serve our diverse communities in need.