• Diversity Scholarship Program, which provides a scholarship to a third-year minority student at Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans, Louisiana

• Participation in local and regional minority job fairs, including the E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Minority Job Fair and the Sunbelt Minority Job Fair

• We actively recruit at law schools with diverse student bodies including Southern University Law School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Texas Southern University School of Law in Houston, Texas; and Mississippi College of Law in Jackson, Mississippi. We also strongly consider students at other, similar institutions.

• Firm-wide luncheons to celebrate Black History Month, National Asian-American Heritage Month, National Hispanic Month, and Women's History Month

• Initiating and supporting efforts to increase diversity within the firm through literature circulation informing all employees of significant contributors to the diversity of our country, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, "Letter From A Birmingham Jail" in recognition of Dr. Martin Luther King Day, and other events

• The Firm is actively involved in and committed to the principles of the DuPont Women Lawyers' Network (DWLN).  The DWLN was founded to positively impact the business of DuPont by promoting legal excellence through the success, development and professional advancement of the women lawyers representing DuPont. The Firm has participated in all of the DWLN Annual Meetings and in many of the mini-conferences held regionally. 

Debbie Kuchler, a shareholder in the New Orleans office, has served on the DWLN’s Marketing Committee and been both a moderator and a speaker at various DWLN functions.

Sarah Iiams, a shareholder in the New Orleans office, has served on the DWLN's Leadership team and was co-chairperson of the Career Development Committee. In connection with that work, she was responsible for coordinating and compiling the annual Fair Measure Survey, which tracked information and statistics on women in the various primary law firms and service provider companies. She has twice been a speaker at the annual DWLN conference in Wilmington, Delaware, on issues pertaining to the Fair Measure Survey. She continues to be active in the network and is currently working with the Marketing Committee

• Debbie Kuchler currently serves on the Diversity Committee for the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel. Members are practicing attorneys who are actively engaged in the private practice of law and devote a substantial amount of their professional time to the representation and defense of associations or corporations in civil litigation.

• In conjunction with Loyola University School of Law, Abbott, Simses & Kuchler co-hosted a diversity conference entitled, "Making the Business Case:  Corporate Directives to Law Firm Initiatives." The program included a panel discussion of General Counsel from five corporations and a law firm diversity panel on which Debbie Kuchler served as a speaker.