GKH Mission Statement

 

Our Mission: To empower individuals, nurture community and promote justice with integrity and compassion

To empower individuals, we:

• Listen carefully to our clients’ goals, objectives and concerns
• Analyze how goals, objectives and concerns intersect with the law
• Assist our clients in making fully informed decisions
• Act as a voice for the voiceless
• Advocate zealously

To nurture community, we:

• Recognize that serving this community is both a privilege and a responsibility
• Address the legal needs of organizations that serve the community
• Nourish deeply-rooted relationships in this community
• Devote time and resources to charitable activities, individually and firm-wide

To promote justice with integrity and compassion, we:

• Acknowledge dependence upon God and others
• Respect differing religious and political opinions
• Seek reconciliation with adversaries to be free from bitterness and hatred
• Recognize communal, individual and adversarial elements of our legal system, that involve responsibilities as well as rights
• Assist those who cannot pay prevailing legal fees
• Encourage empathy
• Balance commitments to family, firm, and community