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Diversity & the Bar—Law Firms with Highest Women Equity Partner Levels
Based on data from 277 major law firms appearing in the 2009 edition of the Vault/MCCA Guide to Law Firm Diversity Programs, the following surveyed law firms have the highest percentage of women equity partners.1
Firms with 20 – 99 Equity Partners
|
Law Firm
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Total Equity Partners
|
Women Equity Partners
|
Percentage Women
|
|
1. McDonough Holland & Allen PC
|
47
|
15
|
31.9%
|
|
2. Bricker & Eckler LLP
|
66
|
19
|
28.8%
|
|
3. Groom Law Group
|
23
|
6
|
26.1%
|
|
4. McGlinchey Stafford PLLC
|
63
|
16
|
25.4%
|
|
5. Woodward Hobson & Fulton LLP
|
28
|
7
|
25.0%
|
|
6. Verrill Dana LLP
|
55
|
13
|
23.6%
|
|
7. Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
|
99
|
22
|
22.2%
|
|
8. Farella Braun + Martel LLP
|
65
|
14
|
21.5%
|
|
9. Crowe & Dunlevy
|
56
|
12
|
21.4%
|
|
10. Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP
|
53
|
11
|
20.8%
|
|
11. GableGotwals
|
34
|
7
|
20.6%
|
|
12. Modrall Sperling
|
49
|
10
|
20.4%
|
|
13. Fragomen Del Ray Bernsen & Loewy LLP
|
20
|
4
|
20.0%
|
Honorable Mentions (firms with at least 19% women equity partners):
Cades Schutte LLP
Drew Eckl & Farnham LLP
Hughes Hubbard & Reed
Neal Gerber & Eisenberg LLP
Firms with More than 100 Equity Partners
|
Law Firm
|
Total Equity Partners
|
Women Equity Partners
|
Percentage Women
|
|
1. Ice Miller LLP
|
110
|
30
|
27.3%
|
|
2. Fredrikson & Byron PA
|
126
|
32
|
25.4%
|
|
3. Littler Mendelson PC
|
250
|
63
|
25.2%
|
|
4. Holland & Hart LLP
|
166
|
41
|
24.7%
|
|
5. Faegre & Benson LLP
|
233
|
55
|
23.6%
|
|
6. Akerman Senterfitt
|
224
|
50
|
22.3%
|
|
7. Davis Polk & Wardwell
|
141
|
31
|
22.0%
|
|
8. Kirkland & Ellis LLP
|
536
|
117
|
21.8%
|
|
9. Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP
|
249
|
54
|
21.7%
|
|
10. Haynes and Boone LLP
|
182
|
39
|
21.4%
|
|
11. (tie) Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll LLP
|
231
|
49
|
21.2%
|
|
Covington & Burling LLP
|
170
|
36
|
21.2%
|
|
13. Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
|
290
|
61
|
21.0%
|
|
14. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
|
163
|
34
|
20.9%
|
|
15. (tie) Jackson Walker LLP
|
101
|
21
|
20.8%
|
|
Bingham McCutchen LLP
|
361
|
75
|
20.8%
|
|
17. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
|
337
|
69
|
20.5%
|
Honorable Mentions (firms with at least 19% women equity partners):
Honigman Miller Schwartz
and Cohn LLP
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Quarles & Brady LLP
Ropes & Gray LLP
Schiff Hardin LLP
Sidley Austin LLP
Steptoe & Johnson LLP
Notes
- Data reported as of year end 2007. The responses of all firms were published in the DVD, PDF, and searchable online database editions of the survey. (The guide was not published in print in 2009.)
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