Which law firms were honored for placing women in leadership roles?
Forty-two law firms have received a “gold standard certification” for placing women in leadership roles.
Women in Law Empowerment Forum created the list to emphasize leadership roles by women equity partners, rather than law firm policies or practices, according to the group’s website. The 42 firms met at least four of six criteria measuring how law firms compensate women and give them power. The Careerist and Above the Law noted the findings.
Six firms met all six criteria. They are:
FordHarrison
Fredrikson & Byron
Holland & Hart
Littler Mendelson
Reed Smith
Shook, Hardy & Bacon
To qualify for WILEF’s list, firms must have 200 or more practicing lawyers in the United States. The six criteria are:
• Women account for at least 20 percent of equity partners or alternatively, 25 percent or more of the attorneys becoming equity partners during the past 12 months.
• Women represent at least 10 percent of firm chairs and office managing partners.
• Women make up at least 20 percent of the firm’s primary governance committee.
• Woman represent 20 percent or more of the firm’s compensation committee.
• Women make up at least 25 percent of practice group leaders or department heads.
• Women represent at least 10 percent of the top half of the most highly compensated partners.
These 42 firms made the list:
Ballard Spahr
Cooley
Crowell & Moring
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Davis Wright Tremaine
Dentons
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner
FordHarrison
Fredrikson & Byron
Frost Brown Todd
Fulbright & Jaworski (now Norton Rose Fulbright)
Gibbons
Goodwin Procter
Haynes and Boone
Holland & Hart
Holland & Knight
Hughes Hubbard & Reed
Jackson Lewis
Jenner & Block
K&L Gates
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
Latham & Watkins
Leonard, Street and Deinard
Littler Mendelson
Locke Lord
Manatt Phelps & Phillips
McCarter & English
Morrison & Foerster
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
Paul Hastings
Perkins Coie
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
Quarles & Brady
Reed Smith
Shook, Hardy & Bacon
Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Stinson Morrison Hecker
Stoel Rives
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan
Thompson Hine
