Bar Report Details Lag in Pay and Partnerships for Women, Minorities (New York Law Journal)
New York Law Journal, November 6, 2017
Bar Report Details Lag in Pay and Partnerships for Women, Minorities
“More women and minority lawyers are sitting on management committees at the largest law firms, but diversity progress remains frustratingly slow in the path to partnership and among the lawyers who earn the most at their firms. The New York City Bar Association’s latest diversity benchmarking report, which surveyed 88 large law firms about their New York City offices in 2016, tracked the ranks of minority and women lawyers from first-year associates to firm leaders. The report showed consistently sluggish progress from the prior 2015 study, with a few notable gains, including women and minorities in leadership positions. The percentage of women serving on management committees increased to 23.6 percent, from 20.3 percent in 2015, and the percentage of minorities serving on these committees increased to 9.4 percent from 7.1 percent in 2015. Meanwhile, the overall representation of minority attorneys increased slightly to 20.6 percent in 2016 from 18.8 percent in 2015, and self-identified LGBT partners have doubled from 1.4 percent in 2004 to 2.8 percent in 2016.”
