Celebrating Our Commitment to Inclusive Leadership By Announcing We Are 2024–2025 Mansfield Certified Plus!

Walsworth is proud to have achieved Mansfield Certification Plus for 2024–2025, reflecting our continuing commitment to fairness, transparency, and equal opportunity.

At Walsworth, diversity is not just a milestone—it’s a mindset. We’re committed to developing bold, creative solutions that reflect the strength of our people and meet the demands of today’s world. We’re also pleased to confirm our renewed commitment to the 2025–2026 certification cycle, joining over 275 peer firms dedicated to a fairer, more transparent path to leadership in the law.

Mansfield’s data-driven certification process ensures that all qualified talent has a fair and equal opportunity to advance into leadership roles. This commitment has guided us for decades, driving greater transparency in our advancement processes and broadening the talent pools for hiring and promotions.

Importantly, a U.S. Federal Court recently recognized that the Mansfield Rule promotes inclusion through consideration of attorneys with diverse backgrounds and not quotas, which is consistent with anti-discrimination laws.

Ongoing Commitment

Our commitment to diversity is grounded in a genuine curiosity about the varied backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives of each member of our community. Our mission focuses on five main goals:

• Recognizing and celebrating the multitude of backgrounds and experience that enhance our personal and professional relationships.
• Leveraging our diversity to provide necessary support to one another, allowing us to provide a competitive advantage to our clients.
• Providing a forward-thinking, diverse, and inclusive firm both within the legal profession and our community at large.
• Embracing the differences that make each of us unique and ensuring a space for all at our firm.
• Developing bold and innovative solutions to the challenges of our world – now and into the future.

It is our goal-oriented and values-driven approach that has enabled Walsworth to consistently earn high rankings such as the Mansfield Certified Plus status and continue to offer our clients creative solutions to achieve their goals.

By ensuring all lawyers have a fair opportunity to succeed, we are better equipped to serve you, our clients, and our communities.

If you’d like to learn more about Mansfield Certification Plus or our ongoing efforts, please contact Soniya D. Khemlani Partner, Chair of DEI Committee.

Soniya D. Khemlani
Partner, Chair of DEI Committee
(714) 634-2522
skhemlani@walsworthlaw.com