When we published last year’s Diversity Scorecard, we said that this year’s edition would take a more nuanced look at how law firms are faring in boosting diversity within their ranks. At the time, we predicted that our new approach would shake up the rankings. And it has.
Last year’s first-place finisher, New York’s Cleary, Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, dropped all the way to a tie at number 20 on our list. And Cleary was hardly alone in falling out of the Scorecard’s upper echelon. All told, five firms lost their top 20 status altogether. One of those, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, plummeted more than 50 spots on this list, from number 6 to number 57.
