Recruitment

We desire to become more diverse and actively seek students with a broad range of interests and experience.

Our outreach activities to minority students goes well beyond recruitment. We have met face-to-face with members of women’s groups, student groups of color, and LGBT groups to learn more about their interests and concerns. We have spoken on interview techniques to minority student groups such as national, local, and Mid-Atlantic BLSA groups and to the National Hispanic Bar Association, Student Division. Our lawyers serve as mentors to students of color, LGBT law students, and women students through formal law school programs and informal inquires.

We also continue to recruit women lawyers at all levels and we support those women in their professional development and in their promotion to principal. We also partner with the University of Maryland School of Law faculty and administrators as well as with the school's Women, Leadership and Equality Fellowship Program, run by Professor Paula Monopoli, on various events for women in business.

Our Women's Network provides workshops and mentoring to help our female lawyers in their professional development. Workshops on negotiations, networking, financial planning, client service and time management, for example, are some of the recent professional development sessions directed to women.

Miles & Stockbridge recognizes that simply attracting minority and women lawyers to our firm and supporting affinity groups is not enough. As a consequence, in addition to maintaining our mentoring-rich culture, we provide a formal mentoring program designed to provide all lawyers, including women and minorities, with regular, focused mentoring and feedback. Our formal mentoring relationships are primarily cross-gender and/or cross-race. At the same time, our culture is one where mentoring happens naturally. We also provide formal educational programming and routinely provide work experience with significant responsibility starting in the first year of employment.