Leading New York Law Firms Lag in Including Women and Minorities (The New York Times)
The New York Times, October 16, 2016
Leading New York Law Firms Lag in Including Women and Minorities
“Large New York City law firms, the economic engine of the $1 billion-plus legal industry, have made scant progress on including women and minorities in their ranks, according to a confidential survey by the New York City Bar Association. ‘Progress remains incremental,’ John S. Kiernan, the president of the association, said of the survey, ‘and attrition and pipeline numbers are not where they should be.’ The law firms, mostly those with 51 to 500 or more lawyers, were required by the association for the first time this year to complete a benchmarking survey to give a better picture of law firm composition. For the first time, the survey collected the breakdown in lawyers by gender and ethnicity rather than by the term ‘minority attorney.'”
