I, Gregory Novak, personally commit to the following:

Personal Commitment 

• I will use my voice as a leader to continuously seek to improve demographics as the team mindfully builds the firm, including through internal and external initiatives. 
• I will commit to our culture of openness, diversity, inclusivity, and equality that drives the firm and individuals, making this message public for all and allowing knowledge of these guiding values. 
• I will use my position among my firm leadership to review each year's commitments to ensure that, as the firm grows, we stay within these core values that have assembled us. 
• I will meet quarterly with firm partners to increase initiatives that promote the support of organizations representing inclusivity and the interest of diverse lawyers.

Organizational Commitment 

• Despite the firm’s significant DE&I recognition, we will continue identifying and selecting candidates during expansion who share in the firm’s culture commitment to historically underrepresented groups. 
• We will persist in our recruiting, hiring, and retention efforts to ensure the uninterrupted diversity of our minority-owned intellectual property law firm. 
• Focus not only on DE&I within the organization but also implement supporting vendor values commitment initiatives.
• Continue active sponsorships and involvement in diversity bar organizations which promote providing opportunities in the legal profession. 
• Our diversity will never be taken for granted, nor will it be celebrated as an infrequent or out-of-the-ordinary achievement, because doing the right thing is expected, valued, and revered. 
• Continue to understand and respect cultural differences and recognize the core holidays associated with all cultures. 
• As a small firm with no hiring committee, we all take personal responsibility to treat everyone with whom we come into contact fairly and equally, with respect and appreciation. 
• We will partner with our clients on DE&I initiatives as well as opportunities to advance the careers of diverse attorneys, both within and outside the organization.
• We will continue to provide our clients with excellent work product, in such setting precedence for DE&I thereby destroying the insidious belief that diversity means lesser.