I, Robert Tannous, personally commit to the following:

Personal Commitment

• I personally commit to promoting a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• I will regularly engage with firm leadership to discuss issues and underscore the importance of maintaining a diverse, equitable, and inclusive community.
• I will continue to evaluate compensation, hiring, and promotion policies and practices, to ensure fairness.
• I will continue to evaluate firm practices and policies to ensure that the practices and policies are consistent with our diversity, equity, and inclusions goals.
• I will continue to host ongoing informal conversations across the firm to learn more about the experiences of attorneys and staff at all levels.
• I will meet periodically with each of our diversity, equity, and inclusion affinity groups.
• I will continue to actively participate in and support all diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and will commit firm resources to support our efforts.
• I commit to learning from current and former colleagues to better understand how to ensure our workplace is supportive of diverse people and inclusive thinking.
• I will communicate our diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives with clients and explore partnership opportunities.
• I will participate in external knowledge sharing opportunities to learn more about diversity, equity, and inclusion best practices.

Organizational Commitment

• Porter Wright will foster an inclusive environment so all colleagues feel welcomed and supported at work.
• Porter Wright will continue to commit to increase firm resources to support our diversity, equity, and inclusion goals and support an inclusive workforce.
• Porter Wright will continue to maintain its unwavering commitment to Mansfield Certification.
• Porter Wright will ensure that members of the firm’s leadership actively participate and support our diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
• Porter Wright will commit to recruitment, professional development, and promotion of diverse talent across the firm.
• Porter Wright will develop mentorship and sponsorship programs to help create opportunities for diverse attorneys to advance at the firm.
• Porter Wright will seek to develop relationships with clients to promote diversity, equity and inclusion within the firm and within the legal community.
• Porter Wright will seek to develop relationships with law schools, bar associations, and other legal community stakeholders to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion within the legal community.
• Porter Wright will continue to support local high school and college legal pipeline programs and other initiatives that support and encourage underrepresented groups to join our legal community.
• Porter Wright will conduct periodic surveys or focus groups to measure inclusiveness and satisfaction among all team members.
• Porter Wright will establish diversity, equity, and inclusion counsels in each of our offices to ensure all of our offices are leading and participating in our diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.