Marcus Webb did not set out to become a leader in diversity and inclusion initiatives at Snow+Snow. He set out to be a good lawyer. Over the course of a twenty-year career in complex commercial litigation, he discovered that the two goals were more closely related than he had initially assumed.
“When I was a junior associate, I spent a lot of energy trying to figure out how to fit into spaces that weren’t designed with me in mind,” Webb says. “At some point I started asking a different question: how do we design better spaces? That shift changed everything about how I approach the work.”
Webb chairs the firm’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee and has been instrumental in building the mentorship infrastructure that connects law school students from underrepresented backgrounds with practicing attorneys. He is also a founding member of the firm’s affinity group network, which now includes chapters in all six domestic offices.
Outside the firm, Webb serves on the board of a local legal aid organization and teaches a trial advocacy seminar at a regional law school. He is candid about the demands of maintaining those commitments alongside a full litigation practice. “You have to be intentional,” he says. “The work that doesn’t have a billing number attached to it is still work. It counts. I try to treat it that way.”
