Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt believes that the diversity of its people enriches the fabric of its culture. Read the firm's diversity statement

We are convinced that our advancements in diversity have enhanced workplace satisfaction for all of us. Meeting the challenge of a fully diverse workplace is far from complete, but our commitment to diversity is resolute and sustained.

We are proud of our efforts to promote diversity in our firm, in the community and in the bar:

• David F. Bartz, Jr., firm president, received the prestigious Oregon Women Lawyers’ 2008 Mercedes Deiz Award for outstanding contribution to promoting minorities in the legal profession and community. Mr. Bartz also received a 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Arts Foundation, which honors individuals who exemplify the life of Martin Luther King through community service work.
• The firm has established a scholarship for first-year minority law students.
• Schwabe participates in the Oregon State Bar minority summer intern program.
• The firm has a long-standing commitment to participation in local, regional and national minority job fair programs.
• Members of the firm have played leadership roles in efforts to promote diversity in the bar.
• The firm and its lawyers participate in and have long supported organizations and programs designed to promote the professional careers of minority lawyers (e.g., the National Hispanic Bar Association, of which one of our lawyers is a regional president, and the ABA Minority Law Conference).
• Our lawyers are active participants in client-led initiatives to promote equality and professional opportunities for women and minorities (e.g., participation in and leadership of client-sponsored women's conferences, minority conferences, minority job fairs, etc.).
• We reach out to and engage minority-owned law firms in our market.
• We have pioneered a law firm community outreach program by being the first law firm to create and sponsor a clinic to provide pro bono legal services to indigent and largely Hispanic members of our communities.
• We have sponsored and funded a scholarship through the auspices of the Portland Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
• The firm and several of our lawyers have played leading roles in the support of and as activists for gay and lesbian workplace equity, and against initiatives and institutions which discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation.
• We support military reservists who are called up to serve our country and the Department of Defense has honored our firm for its efforts.
• The firm is actively participating in a program to offer pro bono legal representation to Guantanamo Bay detainees.
• Former Schwabe lawyer, Ancer Haggerty: First-African American partner in a major law firm, now a highly respected U.S. Federal District Court judge.
• Schwabe lawyer, Neva Campbell: among the very first women to become a partner in an Oregon law firm.