Women and Minority Attorneys Make Gains in Big Law Leadership (Bloomberg Big Law Business)
Bloomberg Big Law Business, November 6, 2017
Women and Minority Attorneys Make Gains in Big Law Leadership
“Women and minority attorneys are gaining ground in Big Law leadership positions, according to a new report by by the New York City Bar Association. The percentage of women serving on management committees rose from 20.3 percent in 2015 to 23.6 percent in 2016, and the percentage of minorities on management committees increased from 7.1 percent to 9.4 percent during the same time, according to the City Bar’s 2016 Diversity Benchmarking Report, which includes data from 88 participating law firms and year-to-year comparison data from 71 firms. ‘These gains that we’re seeing are really promising,’ Gabrielle Brown, director of diversity and inclusion at the City Bar, told Big Law Business. ‘There seems to finally be good news.’ The report also showed signs that women and minority representation in leadership increases once the first lawyers get their foot in the door.”
