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Spotts Fain Diversity Program

Our Commitment to Diversity

Spotts Fain Diversity Policy


One of our core values and objectives is to foster a diverse and inclusive workplace and to develop the outreach initiatives needed to ensure that such values and objectives are shared by everyone at our firm. We believe that diversity means recognizing, accepting and including differences, such as race, gender, religion, national origin, heritage, and sexual orientation. Our Strategic Plan recognizes that our continued success depends upon our ability to recruit, hire, train, mentor and retain excellent and diverse attorneys and staff. Maintaining an inclusive organization where all feel welcomed and empowered to succeed enables us to provide the breadth of experience and perspective that best serves our diverse clients and our community. 

As part of our strategic planning process, we established our Diversity Committee.  The Diversity Committee's  mission includes three essential initiatives:

  • to act as an advisory group and to conduct programs to educate the Firm concerning diversity issues and to suggest diversity policies to implement at the Firm;
  • to sponsor Firm-wide outreach activities and events, as part of our effort to increase the number of diverse attorneys and staff at the Firm; and
  • to act as a resource on diversity matters for the administrative management, recruiting, and management committees, as well as other groups in the Firm.

Recent initiatives:

2009 Sponsorship of the VBA Diversity Job Fair

Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute

Members of the Diversity Committee include:

Meade Spotts

Hugh Fain

Tom O'Brien

Jennifer West

August 20, 2010 - Michael Yager, a Legal Assistant in our Litigation Section, will speak at a NALA LIVE! presentation on electronic discovery, "E-Discovery - Slow Down the Train" 

January 27, 2010 - We are proud to announce that Spotts Fain Managing Director, Hugh M. Fain, III has been elected Chair of the Board of Governors of the Virginia Bar Association

December, 2009 - Spotts Fain congratulates our shareholders named in the 2009 Legal Elite list published by Virginia Business magazine.  They are Meade Spotts, Legislative/Regulatory; Hugh Fain, Civil Litigation; Betsy Davis, Labor and Employment; and Dana McDaniel, Intellectual Property. 

December 1, 2009 - Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination - article by Betsy Davis

October 29, 2009 - Betsy Davis spoke on Recent Changes in Employment Law at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys

October 27, 2009 - Spotts Fain presented, Commercial Landlords and Tenants: Planning for and Dealing with Bankruptcy, presenters were Jen West and John Anderson

October 26, 2009 - Comments on President Obama's proposal to increase lending limits on SBA loans, by Tom O'Brien

October 21, 2009 - GINA is Coming - Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act - article by Betsy Davis

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