The largest law firms are slightly more diverse than they were last year, with minority attorneys and minority partners making gains. That’s what we found when we crunched the numbers for 223 firms that gave us that information for our 2014 Diversity Scorecard.
Our scorecard tallies the number of African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic and multiracial/other attorneys in various law firm jobs. The rank we award each firm is based on the number we get when we add the percentage of minority lawyers in the firm’s U.S. offices to the percentage of U.S.–based minority partners. The bigger the number, the better the firm’s rank. Here are highlights from this year’s scorecard:
