The Firm is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The Firm’s employees are the most valuable asset the Firm has. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, inventiveness, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities, and talent that the Firm’s employees invest in their work represents a significant part of not only the Firm’s culture, but the Firm’s reputation and achievements. The Firm embraces and encourages employees’ differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make the Firm’s employees unique.