50 best law firms for women named; more have women in top rainmaker ranks
Women are among the top rainmakers at an increasing percentage of law firms named as most hospitable for women.
Working Mother and Flex-Time Lawyers today released their list of the 50 Best Law Firms for Women. Seventy-eight percent of the firms on this year’s list have one or more women among their top 10 rainmakers, up from 69 percent of firms last year, according to a press release (PDF). An executive summary (PDF) has more information.
The list is based on factors such as representation of women in the workforce and in leadership positions, flexibility, compensation, and development and retention of women, according to a summary of methodology.
At the top 50 firms:
• Nineteen percent of the equity partners are women, up from 16 percent when the best law firms initiative was launched in 2007.
• Twenty-nine percent of the nonequity partners are women, up from 22 percent in 2007.
• Women hold 22 of executive committee seats, 23 percent of compensation committee seats, and 24 percent of equity partner promotion committee seats.
• All 50 firms offer flex-time and reduced hours, though only 15 percent of the lawyers use flex-time and only 9 percent work reduced hours. Forty-eight of the 50 firms allow lawyers working reduced hours to be eligible for equity partnership, though an average of only one lawyer per firm received a promotion while working fewer hours.
Here is the top 50 list:
Baker & McKenzie
Chapman and Cutler
Cooley
Crowell & Moring
Debevoise & Plimpton
DLA Piper (US)
Dorsey & Whitney
Duane Morris
Faegre Baker Daniels
Farella Braun & Martel
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner
Foley & Lardner
Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz
Fredrikson & Byron
Fulbright & Jaworski
Gibbons
Godfrey & Kahn
Goodwin Procter
Hanson Bridgett
Haynes and Boone
Hogan Lovells US
Holland & Hart
Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn
Hunton & Williams
Ice Miller
Jenner & Block
Katten Muchin Rosenman
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Leonard, Street and Deinard
Lindquist & Vennum
Littler Mendelson
Lowenstein Sandler
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
McGuireWoods
Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg
O’Melveny & Myers
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
Paul Hastings
Perkins Coie
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
Quarles. & Brady
Reed Smith
Schiff Hardin
Seyfarth Shaw
Shook, Hardy & Bacon
Sidley Austin
Thompson Hine
Vinson & Elkins
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr
