One of the firm's founding members is Robert K. Phillips. Mr. Phillips received his Masters in Theology from Boston University with a major in social ethics and social justice, with an emphasis on minority inclusion issues. Mr. Phillips has been active in diversity and inclusion issues his entire adult life and has made his philosophy of inclusion a cornerstone principle of the firm. The firm has instituted and annually funds a minority scholarship at three major law schools. The firm actively publishes its minority and female hiring initiatives and aggressively pursues such qualified applicants.  The firm constantly encourages its minority and female attorneys to participate  in pertinent minority and female professional organizations and is quite proud of the fact that our practice is composed of over 50% female and over 40% minority attorneys. We look forward to an increasingly diverse partnership.

Further, we are proud that our firm has been registered by the U.S. Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency as a minority-owned business.  We are also a member of the California Minority Counsel Program, http://www.cmpc.org.

Long ago, Phillips, Spallas & Angstadt established its core philosophies of mutual respect within its workforce and equal treatment for all, regardless of gender, race, national origin, religion or sexual orientation.  Our commitment to diversity is an ongoing effort as the firm understands the value a diverse workforce brings, not only to the workplace, but also to society as a whole.

This commitment to diversity extends outside our own workforce with our Fellowships for Minorities at three prestigious law schools, Notre Dame Law School, Syracuse University College of Law, and University of San Francisco School of Law.  These annual expendable fellowships in the name of our firm have been established for Minority Law Students in financial need.

Each school establishes its own financial need criteria.  All inquiries regarding the Phillips, Spallas & Angstadt fellowships should be forwarded to the appropriate financial aid department.