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Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan Core Values Statement:
1. Clients as Partners,
a core value. We want to provide greater value
to those we service, as well as greater value to members
of our own firm when compared to other law firms or employers.
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2. Employee Self Actualization, a core value.
We help our employees realize their individual talents.
Implicitly, we treat every attorney and staff member with
respect. 2
3. Diversity & Community, a core value. GSH
believes that it must utilize and recruit from the entire
resources of the community to best service clients and
maximize opportunities. 3
4. Creativity, a core value. GSH encourages
every attorney to take risks when appropriate in their
efforts to service clients and to also distinguish itself
as a leader. This is best accomplished from an economically
sound base.
5. Diffused Management Style, a core value.
Whenever reasonable, GSH encourages a culture of decision-making
and responsibility in a dispersed manner as opposed to
a centralized process. 4
1 We will always strive to consider client concerns from
their vantage point. We will endeavor to partner with
clients to help them service and better understand communities
they may not know well.
2 We work to help employees at GSH realize their greatest
potential personally, professionally and monetarily beyond
the traditional model in our industry. Respect for each
member of the firm requires the most senior attorneys
lead by example, including the way in which they communicate
with each other.
3 GSH has a history of being a national leader in diversity
within the legal profession. We need to continue to emphasize
and strengthen our diversity as a distinct advantage throughout
our firm. This includes tying our diverse nature into
community leadership. This also means we should invest
to position ourselves and our firm image nationally as
the leader in diversity that readily transcends legal
services. Our clients should see our diversity as part
of their value added. Our communities should come to recognize
us as diversity problem solvers.
4 We want decisions and accountability at the lowest reasonable
levels to free up resources of senior GSH staff. We want
people to take ownership of GSH for their area of responsibility.
This type of approach will invite the maximum use of talent
and development of leadership skills. As such, we identify
and maintain certain key functions that require central
decision making at the top of GSH management, such as
hiring or marketing. We empower attorneys and staff to
be responsible for decisions relating to non-key functions.
We want a culture that makes use of the best practices
and individual talents brought to the firm by its people.
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