Workplace Engagement: Our Commitment

Workplace Engagement 

At Kelley Drye, employee engagement is a core value, expressed in our approach to recruiting lawyers and staff, empowering them to thrive in their careers, and to creating a workplace where all members are safe, respected, heard, and valued. We believe that meaningful employee engagement enhances wellbeing and connection and strengthens our collegial firm culture.

Our attorneys and staff are essential to Kelley Drye’s success. The perspectives, life experiences, ideas, and talents that each person brings to the Kelley Drye community contribute to our Firm culture and to the exceptional service that we provide to our clients.

We welcome, value, and respect the diversity - in all the myriad ways it manifests - that makes each of our employees unique.

Our initiatives are informed by three guiding principles: to champion an environment where all voices are included and respected, foster an engaged firm community, and support professional development that empowers our attorneys and professionals to thrive. Our efforts are complemented by a focus on employee engagement that helps translate our employees’ strengths into a shared sense of purpose supporting collaboration and driving innovation.

Workplace Engagement Committee

Kelley Drye’s Workplace Engagement Committee advances the work of three guiding principles―to champion an environmenrt where all voices are included and respected, foster an engaged firm community, and support professional development that empowers our attorneys and professionals to thrive.

Comprised of attorneys from across the firm, the Workplace Engagement Committee meets regularly with Firm leadership and Kelley Drye’s Director of Workplace Engagement to develop programs that support professional growth and retention within the Firm.

Workplace Engagement Committee Members

Workplace Engagement at Kelley Drye

Kelley Drye actively supports internal and external programs to support professional growth.

Lewis M. Rose Scholarship

In support of our commitment to a legal profession that includes people with a myriad of life experiences, backgrounds, identities, and perspectives, Kelley Drye is proud to offer the Lewis M. Rose 1L and 2L Scholarships to outstanding rising first- and second-year law students. Named for former Firm Managing Partner, Lew Rose, the Scholarships include a paid summer associate position and a $25,000 award

Read more about Lewis M. Rose 1L Scholarship – now closed

Read more about Lewis M. Rose 2L Scholarship – now closed

Equal Employment Opportunity

The Firm is an equal opportunity employer. The Firm always has been, and continues to be, committed to providing equal opportunity to all its employees and applicants for employment. It is therefore the policy of the Firm to hire, train and promote its employees and to administer all other employment policies without regard to race, color, religion, creed, age, gender, gender expression and gender identity, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, ancestry or national origin, citizenship, physical or mental disability, genetic information, religious affiliations, alienage, military or veteran status or on any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state or local laws.