Carlton Fields has more than 330 attorneys and government and financial services consultants serving clients from offices in California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, and Washington, D.C. Founded in 1901, the firm is known for its national litigation practice, including class action defense, trial practice, white collar representation, and high-stakes appeals; its insurance practice, including life and financial lines, property and casualty, reinsurance, and title insurance; its regulatory practice; and its handling of sophisticated business transactions and corporate counseling for domestic and international clients. (Carlton Fields practices law in California through Carlton Fields, LLP.)
We focus on the following key industries:
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Core Values
Service to Our Clients – We are committed to serving our clients effectively and efficiently. We endeavor as a firm to be responsive to our clients’ needs, requests, and expectations; we serve our clients with knowledge, skill, loyalty, creativity, perseverance, and care; and we seek to be conscientious in attaining our clients’ objectives in the most cost-effective manner possible. To meet these goals, we recruit and retain lawyers and staff of the highest caliber.
Professionalism and Ethics – Although we are committed to representing our clients vigorously and aggressively, we do so only within ethical bounds and in a manner consistent with the highest professional ideals.
Service to Our Communities and the Profession – Recognizing the special responsibility that attorneys bear in a democratic society, and our obligations as citizens to our communities, we expect and encourage the firm’s attorneys to participate actively in community service, pro bono representation, and professional organizations.
Appreciation of Diversity – Carlton Fields encourages and rewards exceptional performance and hard work without favoritism or prejudice based on family relationships, gender, ethnic background, or the like. The firm takes great pride in the diversity of the backgrounds and perspectives of its attorneys and staff.
Fair Compensation – We are committed to compensating all employees fairly and to providing excellent benefits.
Enjoyment of Work – We are committed to the ideal that this firm can and should be managed so that every employee will be professionally fulfilled. To achieve this goal, we endeavor to operate this firm so that all employees have the opportunity to seek and obtain challenging work and professional growth; all employees demonstrate mutual respect, courtesy, and concern; and all employees are encouraged and permitted to afford time and attention to their families and other personal priorities.
Work Ethic – The firm expects all employees to commit themselves enthusiastically to the requirements of their position, recognizing that this may require personal sacrifices from time to time.
One Firm – We are “one firm.” We place the best interests of the firm ahead of our individual interests, and we stand ready to provide assistance and support to one another at all times.
Loyalty – We value loyalty to our clients, to the firm, and to each other.
Competent, Effective Management – We are committed to operating successfully as a business, for the long-term benefit of the shareholders, their successors, all attorneys and other employees, our clients, and others whom we serve. For this reason, we endeavor to manage the firm competently and effectively, and we encourage and reward each attorney’s attainment of his or her full career potential.
Recruiting and Development
At Carlton Fields, we recognize that our ability to provide the highest level of client service is inextricably linked to our commitment to hiring, training, and advancing exemplary lawyers. To attract and keep top talent, we offer the opportunity to work with dedicated colleagues who share ideals that include unwavering professionalism, fairness, transparency, mutual respect, collaboration, and honesty.
Our colleagues are leaders in their many endeavors, and free-thinking innovators who are committed to long-term growth and success, for themselves and the firm. From summer associate orientation to career development programs for shareholders, ours receive ongoing, innovative training and mentorship opportunities that address every facet of the practice of law and life at Carlton Fields.
These key initiatives help our lawyers maximize the hard-won wisdom of practitioners who have mastered many of the challenges they will face:
Diversity
Hiring and advancing diverse attorneys has been a core component of our firm culture since long before the practice gained currency in the legal marketplace. We continually assess and launch initiatives that include:
Carlton Fields is a charter member of the Law Firm Antiracism Alliance, a coalition of more than 300 law firms dedicated to advancing equal justice.
Recent accolades include:
Pro Bono
As a charter signatory to the Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge, we expect and encourage our lawyers and paralegals to devote at least 50 hours annually to pro bono work. In return, they receive billable credit. Examples of our recent pro bono representations include work in the areas of child and family programs, immigration, veterans rights, criminal justice, housing, and environmental matters. Recent partners include Habitat for Humanity, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Citizens Crime Commission, the Innocence Project of Florida, Bat Conservation International, Medical Justice Alliance, Crossroads for Florida Kids, Advokids, Kids in Need of Defense, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the Veterans Consortium Pro Bono Program.
