This Year, Let’s Celebrate Your Bright Spots!
Happy New Year! This year, why not make it your new year’s resolution to celebrate your Bright Spots?
In 2019, we at the Diversity & Flexibility Alliance will be sharing diversity and flexibility Bright Spots – those small or large successes that impact your organization in a positive way. We believe that important diversity and flexibility initiatives can truly impact your organization’s bottom line, recruitment and retention capabilities and employee satisfaction. We also believe that you should celebrate these accomplishments!
We’re hoping that by sharing our members’ and non-members’ Bright Spots, we’ll help to build momentum and encourage a “Ripple Effect” so that organizations will see positive results elsewhere and implement the same strategies at home.
For our inaugural 2019 Bright Spots, we’re celebrating these 42 law firms who had 50% or greater women in their 2018 New Partner Class. (Check out our 2018 New Partner Report Executive Summary for more details.)
- Arent Fox
- Arnold & Porter
- Baker Donelson
- Boies Schiller & Flexner
- Brown Rudnick
- Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
- Cahill Gordon & Reindel
- Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
- Cozen O’Connor
- Debevoise & Plimpton
- Dechert
- Dentons
- Epstein Becker & Green
- Farella Braun + Martel
- Foley Hoag
- Fox Rothschild
- Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy
- Gibbons
- Goldberg Kohn
- Holland & Hart
- Jenner & Block
- Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel
- LeClairRyan
- Littler Mendelson
- McDermott Will & Emery
- Miles & Stockbridge
- Morgan, Lewis &
Bright Spot: Arnold & Porter’s Key Gender Equity Efforts
In an effort to inform and inspire our members and friends, we often share diversity and flexibility Bright Spots – those small or large successes that impact an organization in a positive way. We believe that important diversity and flexibility initiatives can truly impact your organization’s bottom line, recruitment and retention capabilities and employee satisfaction.
Arnold & Porter’s Key Gender Equity Efforts
BRIGHT SPOT
International law firm Arnold & Porter has received our “Tipping the Scales” honor for the past four years reinforcing the firm’s strong commitment to promoting equal numbers of men and women to its partnership. The firm’s higher than average number of women in leadership is the result of many years of dedication to building systems that focus on gender parity and hold leaders accountable for each practice group’s outcome. The firm’s Chair and Managing Partners are keenly focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, and there is a deep understanding within firm culture that gender parity is critical. Building on this cultural foundation, Arnold & Porter is committed to intentional efforts in many important areas. Here we will highlight two particular Bright Spots in Arnold & Porter’s approach to achieving its gender diversity goals:
Annual High Level Pipeline Conversations
Managing Partners at Arnold & Porter have pipeline conversations annually with each of the firm’s practice group leaders. In addition to identifying who will be coming up for promotion in the given year, the conversations center around looking back several years to see what is happening within each practice group. This approach allows the leadership to look deeper into the pipeline, analyze past hires and promotions and be prepared to course correct if there are gender diversity challenges.