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Benchmarks are important in our business, and our values serve a similar purpose: they keep our goals in view and enable us to measure our progress toward them. For example, how can we strengthen our expertise and capabilities to meet our clients’ changing needs? How should we grow as a firm? How do we continue to build our culture, so it represents and supports all our people? In what ways can we give back to our communities?
Our values help us to answer these questions. They remain as relevant today as they were decades ago—guiding our work, shaping our relationships with clients and experts, and inspiring successive generations of our staff. They define not only how we work, but who we are.
We are dedicated to quality.
We are committed to excellence and outstanding high quality in everything we do, demonstrating that commitment in a host of ways.
On the most elemental level, we focus on providing rigorous, objective, efficient analyses. The experience our people bring to casework, coupled with a collaborative approach, ensures that we have the depth of expertise and the capability to meet exacting case requirements.
On a strategic level, our dedication to quality manifests itself in how we approach our clients’ challenges. We take a mindful approach to problem solving. The matters we work on can be enormously complex, often with high stakes and significant pressures. We help clients to identify the most critical issues, assess the relevant data and information, and develop creative approaches that are grounded in research-based analyses.
Clients and experts rely on us.
Our experts are critical to providing top-quality work for our clients. We identify expert witnesses with the most relevant qualifications for each matter, drawing both from in-house practitioners and from our global network of distinguished academics, former regulators, and industry leaders.
We strive to develop relationships based on trust and respect.
Clients depend on us to deliver best-in-class service that is proactive, innovative, and highly attentive to detail. Experts entrust us with their professional reputations. At every level of the firm, we approach these responsibilities as one team, with the utmost tenacity and focus. The exceptional quality of our work has enabled us to build longstanding relationships with both clients and experts.
We are embracing generative AI to enhance our analytical capabilities.
One of the most exciting parts of Cornerstone’s business is the opportunity to create and develop specialized research tools and analytical techniques to address emerging needs. We are an industry leader in secure, large-scale data analytics and data visualization techniques, as well as sophisticated econometric and statistical methods.
Our firm is actively embracing generative artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance our analytical capabilities, and we have developed a robust process and policy framework to prioritize responsible innovation, data protection, and outstanding work product
As the litigation and regulatory landscape continues to evolve, the new tools we develop and deploy provide clients and experts with a distinct advantage.
Our commitment to our people promotes a highly supportive culture.
So many elements combine to make Cornerstone’s culture special. Respect for every person. Teamwork in all that we do. Dedication to helping others—both within our firm and beyond—through charitable giving, volunteering, and pro bono efforts.
Everyone benefits when we live and nurture our values.
As a firm, we take pride in our amazing people, the caring culture we have built, and the successes we celebrate together. Our goal is to create an environment in which every individual, in every role, feels valued and able to contribute authentically and fully. We come from different backgrounds and have different functions in the firm, but each of us is vital to making Cornerstone the very best we can be.
Everyone benefits when we live and nurture our values. Our clients benefit because our collaborative culture provides them with consistent depth and breadth of support. Our experts benefit because we provide meaningful opportunities to apply their academic research to real-world challenges. And our entire team benefits from the spirit of community that makes Cornerstone such a great place to work, learn, and have fun.
We are a one-firm firm.
“One-firm firm” means that when you work with Cornerstone, you can depend on the resources of our entire company—more than 1,000 people, working across nine offices—to support your project.
We staff case teams across the firm, drawing on relevant experience and expertise from different offices and practices. This comprehensive cross-team collaboration provides clients and experts with extraordinary, seamless support.
At Cornerstone, leadership comes from all levels and every team member has an important role to play.
Across the firm, we provide equal access and opportunity, actively engaging with one another to support our success. Our team-based approach has garnered multiple honors, including Inc. Magazine’s “Best Workplace” awards, and numerous recognitions from Vault, Forbes, and the Human Rights Campaign’s Equality 100.
At Cornerstone, we remain committed to developing novel ways to support our clients and identifying experts at the leading edge of research. And by continuing to hire outstanding people, we integrate fresh perspectives and skills that enrich our work and our culture.
We look to the future with excitement and optimism, confident that our core values will guide us toward further innovation, growth, and success.
Ready to Apply Your Analytical Skills to Real-World Challenges?
Visit our Careers page to find the role that fits your experience. We offer dedicated application tracks for:
- Undergraduate and master’s candidates
- Ph.D. and M.B.A. candidates
- Professionals with industry experience
- Key business and organizational functions
Join our team and apply your analytical perspective to the cases that define global business and law.