Culhane Meadows, a women-owned and managed firm founded 10 years ago in Dallas, plans expansion to the West Coast, and remains fully committed to diversity at a time when legal and political pressure complicates that choice.

“If we don’t look like the clients who are hiring us, we can’t do our job effectively and to do that, we have to have a diverse firm,” said Kelly Rittenberry Culhane, a Dallas-based founder of the fully remote firm.