Which top law firms earned perfect scores for LGBT-inclusive policies?
Law firms have outperformed other industries for their LGBT-inclusive policies in a review by the Human Rights Campaign.
The 2017 Corporate Equality Index ranking included 156 law firms, and 112 received scores of 100 percent, up from 95 last year, the Am Law Daily (sub. req.) reports. Fourteen firms had scores of 95 percent, nine scored 90 percent,14 scored 85 percent, and three scored 80 percent. Only four firms scored below 80.
Law firms had the largest number of perfect scores among all sectors, according to Beck Bailey, deputy director of employee engagement at the HRC, who spoke with the Am Law Daily. The next highest number of perfect scores were in the banking and financial services sector (69 perfect scores), the retail and consumer products sector (38 perfect scores), and the insurance sector (36 perfect scores).
The law firms are among 517 employers that earned perfect scores, according to the HRC’s report (PDF). The number represents the largest one-year jump in top scores since the index debuted a decade ago. An HRC summary of the findings is here.
The Human Rights Campaign asks companies in the Fortune 1000 and the nation’s 200 top law firms to participate in its evaluation. Five categories are considered: nondiscrimination policies, employment benefits, demonstrated organizational competency and accountability, public commitment to LGBT equality, and responsible citizenship.
Law firms with perfect scores are:
Akerman
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld
Alston & Bird
Arent Fox
Armstrong Teasdale
Arnold & Porter
Baker & McKenzie
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz
Blank Rome
Boies, Schiller & Flexner
Brown Rudnick
Bryan Cave
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney
BuckleySandler
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
Carlton Fields Jorden Burt
Chapman and Cutler
Choate, Hall & Stewart
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance US
Cooley
Covington & Burling
Crowell & Moring
Davis Wright Tremaine
Day Pitney
Debevoise & Plimpton
Dechert
Dentons US
DLA Piper
Dorsey & Whitney
Dykema Gossett
Faegre Baker Daniels
Fenwick & West
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner
Foley & Lardner
Foley Hoag
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
Frost Brown Todd
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Goodwin Procter
Gordon & Rees
Goulston & Storrs
Greenberg Traurig
Hinshaw & Culbertson
Hogan Lovells US
Holland & Knight
Hughes Hubbard & Reed
Husch Blackwell
Jenner & Block
K&L Gates
Katten Muchin Rosenman
Kaye Scholer
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
King & Spalding
Kirkland & Ellis
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel
Kutak Rock
Lane Powell
Latham & Watkins
Lindquist & Vennum
Littler Mendelson
Locke Lord
Lowenstein Sandler
Mayer Brown
McDermott Will & Emery
Michael Best & Friedrich
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo
Moore & Van Allen
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
Morrison & Foerster
Munger, Tolles & Olson
Nixon Peabody
Norton Rose Fulbright
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart
O’Melveny & Myers
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler
Paul Hastings
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
Pepper Hamilton
Perkins Coie
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
Quarles & Brady
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Reed Smith
Robins Kaplan
Ropes & Gray
Schiff Hardin
Sedgwick
Seyfarth Shaw
Shearman & Sterling
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton
Shook, Hardy & Bacon
Sidley Austin
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Snell & Wilmer
Squire Patton Boggs
Stoel Rives
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan
Thompson Coburn
Thompson Hine
Troutman Sanders
Vinson & Elkins
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
Wiley Rein
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr
Winston & Strawn
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice
