MINORITY CERTIFIED
Espinosa | Trueba, PL, PL is a certified, minority owned law firm dedicated to providing the highest quality legal services to its clients. Our firm strives to combine the high quality service expected from a leading firm with the attention, responsiveness and care-to-detail of a boutique specialty firm.

Diversity provides a treasure trove of life experiences, opinions, problem solving strategies, fresh ideas and perspectives that improves the quality of the legal services and enriches the workplace environment. Espinosa | Trueba, PL, PL knows the importance of diversity in the workplace and is committed to providing its clients with those benefits. The minority certification process comprised a comprehensive vetting process, including proof of ancestry, a showing of AV® rating status and recommendations from three Fortune® 500 clients. Espinosa | Trueba, PL, PL has been certified by the Southern Florida Minority Supplier Development Council (SFMSDC) and by the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF).


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SOUTHERN FLORIDA MINORITY SUPPLIER DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL


The SFMSDC was founded in 1975 by the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce and the Greater Miami Progress Foundation for the purpose of fostering the development of minority-owned businesses throughout South Florida. The mission of the Southern Florida Minority Supplier Development Council is to link Corporations and Government Agencies with Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs) to foster business development and expansion.

The Council's main function is to register and certify minority-owned businesses. The process ensures that these businesses are at least 51% minority-owned and operated in accordance with the guidelines set by the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC). The SFMSDC is one of 38 regional councils affiliated with the NMSDC.

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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MINORITY AND WOMEN OWNED LAW FIRMS


The National Association of Minority & Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF), founded in 2001, is a nonprofit trade association comprised of minority and women-owned law firms, business partners such as Adidas America, Inc., American Airlines, AT&T Corporation, Bellsouth Corporation, Burger King Corporation, E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Eddie Bauer, Inc., Domino's Pizza, Inc., The Coca Cola Company, Steelcase, Inc., Sun Chemical Corporation, Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation; and other interested parties throughout the United States. NAMWOLF provides a two-fold benefit to its members and our marketplace: (1) to make available highly skilled and tested lawyers to effectively and competently represent the legal interests of larger companies; and (2) to ensure the long-term survival of high-quality minority and women-owned law firms.

Many companies interested in achieving diversity with outside professional services firms have historically focused almost exclusively on the utilization of minority and female attorneys positioned within larger firms.

 
Yet, the available data strongly suggests that these efforts have not resulted in diversity in the profession. It is NAMWOLF’s view that the most effective way for companies to increase diversity in the legal profession is to increase their retention of minority and women-owned law firms. We are a member of this great organization dedicated to giving its business partners access to the highest quality legal services by vetting minority and women owned law firms.

NAMWOLF’s Law Firm Membership is comprised of AV®-rated firms from across the country that have provided legal services to major corporate clients. In order to qualify for membership in NAMWOLF, a minority or women-owned firm must receive positive reviews by at least three Fortune® 500 companies. Firms must also be certified by a regional minority owned business council, thereby confirming that the firm is truly minority or women owned. Through these efforts, NAMWOLF has provided its corporate partners access to a previously vetted, highly qualified group of lawyers, and at the same time, has ensured the long-term survival of these minority and women-owned law firms.

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