Irell & Manella offers a culture where lawyers with exceptional intelligence, creativity, and character provide clients with the highest quality legal services:

• Our reputation attracts national and international clients, allowing us to concentrate our presence in a single metropolitan area, ensuring collegiality, and firm cohesion.
• Our commitment to excellence and dedication to practical counseling means that clients hire us for the most interesting and complex problems.
• Our lawyers are leaders in their fields, teaching at law schools and authoring leading treatises.
• Our diversity is a long-standing part of our culture. The American Lawyer Magazine’s Minority Law Journal identified Irell & Manella as a diversity leader, with one of the highest percentages of minority partners in the country.
• Our highly selective hiring, nearly one-to-one associate to partner ratio, and non-hierarchical structure foster early responsibility, giving associates a shorter track to true equity partnership.
• We promote a supportive and collegial environment by compensating associates in the same class equally and at the top of the market.
• Associates are members of firm committees, help shape firm policy, and regularly receive financial information that other firms do not give even partners.
• Our lawyers participate extensively in pro bono, charitable, and bar activities.  Many have gone on to careers in government, the bench, public interest organizations, and teaching.