These Forty-Four Firms Are Demonstrating Their Commitment to Gender Parity in the Legal Industry
As we announced in our 2017 New Partner Report, there were 44 firms that promoted 50% or more women in this year’s new partner class. Congratulations to these firms for their commitment to gender parity and for developing a top quality leadership team.
- Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
- Baker Donelson
- Covington & Burling
- Cravath, Swaine & Moore
- Crowell & Moring
- Debevoise & Plimpton
- Dorsey & Whitney
- Drinker Biddle & Reath
- Epstein Becker & Green
- Eversheds Sutherland
- Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
- Foley Hoag
- Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy
- Goldberg Kohn
- Haynes and Boone
- Hughes Hubbard & Reed
- Hunton & Williams
- Husch Blackwell
- Jenner & Block
- Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel
- Kutak Rock
- LeClairRyan
- Littler Mendelson
- Locke Lord
- Loeb & Loeb
- McDermott Will & Emery
- Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
- Miles & Stockbridge
- Miller & Chevalier
- Morrison & Foerster
- Nixon Peabody
- O’Melveny & Myers
- Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein
- Paul Hastings
- Pepper Hamilton
- Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
- Quarles & Brady
- Schulte Roth & Zabel
- Steptoe & Johnson
- Van Ness Feldman
- Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
- Weil, Gotshal & Manges
- Williams & Connolly
- Willkie Farr & Gallagher
As you may have seen, this year our research found that 38.1 percent of new partners in 133 major U.S. law firms were women. We have been compiling this data and releasing this report for six years, and 2017 has been the best year so far with an increase of five percentage points overall since 2012 and one percentage point since 2016.
We hope that as firms plan for 2018 they will continue to track and measure their diversity goals, support and develop young women attorneys, monitor the pipeline and provide non-stigmatized flexible work options for both men and women.
We hope one day soon all firms will have 50% women in their new partner class. Until that day, we commend the firms who are leading the way!
Let us know how we can help you advance more women and develop a non-stigmatized flexible work policy that benefits both men and women.
