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News and expert analysis on diversity
By Rose Orlik | March 22, 2012
Herbert Smith, Hogan Lovells and Addleshaw Goddard are among a host of firms rolling out new initiatives to help retain and promote more female lawyers, with the moves coming as businesses face increasing pressure to up the number of women on boards.
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By Suzi Ring | March 8, 2012
Flexible working and better performance assessment are key to retaining more women in law, according to a recent survey by the Law Society and LexisNexis. The survey, published to coincide with International Women's Day today (8 March), canvassed 1,144 respondents, with flexible working options and performance metrics that allow for fewer hours in the office cited as the best ways for the legal profession to retain more women.
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By Alex Novarese | February 16, 2012
I remember several years back working with another reporter on a piece about women in law, which focused on the relative lack of female partners. The article tried to assess the prospects for changes to the industry's working practices that would ease the conflict for female lawyers between parenthood and making partner. After the piece came out, my colleague told me that he didn't think law firms needed to change at all, in the sense that it wouldn't damage them commercially to keep losing huge numbers of expensively-trained women lawyers. I knew he was right.
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By Legal Week | November 30, 2011
"Women tend to work collaboratively and innovatively, and should be part of the solution as law firms look at how their model needs to change" - Vodafone GC Rosemary Martin is calling on panel firms to provide better career support for women...
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By Friederike Heine | November 30, 2011
Shearman & Sterling has become the first US firm in London to publish diversity statistics ahead of a controversial requirement from the Legal Services Board (LSB) that will make such reporting compulsory from December 2012.
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By Suzi Ring | November 21, 2011
More paid part-time judicial roles will be made available to allow for flexibility with family commitments and increase the number of women in the judiciary, according to new proposals laid out by Justice Secretary Ken Clarke. The proposal is one of a number of measures outlined by Clarke today (21 November) to increase diversity within the judiciary in a bid to provide better access to judicial careers. If granted, the move would see an increase in the number of part-time judges in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. Currently, flexible-working arrangements are rare and generally not seen above the level of district judge.
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By Friederike Heine | November 15, 2011
Shoosmiths has been named as the UK's most diverse law firm according to this year's Black Solicitors Network (BSN) Diversity League Table. The ranking combines law firm demographics across four different strands of diversity - disability, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation - with policy and practice information at the firms also being taken into consideration. In total, 44 law firms in the UK took part in the report.
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By Legal Week | November 9, 2011
Ashurst's senior partner addresses reaction to the firm's pledge to boost female numbers in management roles
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By Legal Week | October 31, 2011
There's more unity among professional women, but what about the women who work for them? Here's the startling news: Female secretaries can't stand lawyers who are women. According to a survey of 142 secretaries at big firms...
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By Friederike Heine | October 26, 2011
Ashurst has become the first leading UK law firm to introduce a quota for the number of women it wants to employ in management positions, with the City firm aiming to have one quarter of its management posts filled by women within the next three years. The target has been introduced by the Ashurst Committee, which was created at the start of 2011 by senior partner Charlie Geffen and global head of corporate Stephen Lloyd with the intention of improving the retention of female lawyers.
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By Hugo Guzman | October 15, 2021
"It would be great if everyone was an ally," Booz Allen Hamilton Executive Vice President Nancy Laben said. "But when I tell somebody their salary is going to be docked, they'll be self-motivated."
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By Varsha Patel | October 15, 2021
For U.K. Black History Month, Julian Taylor and Fiona Bolton describe taking part in a mentoring scheme that focuses on diversity.
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By Dan Packel | October 15, 2021
In the last 18 months, Hogan Lovells' Miguel Zaldivar and Sidley Austin's Yvette Ostolaza have joined Hunton Andrews Kurth's Wally Martinez as leaders of Am Law 100 firms.
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By Dan Packel | October 15, 2021
In the last 18 months, Hogan Lovells' Miguel Zaldivar and Sidley Austin's Yvette Ostolaza have joined Hunton Andrews Kurth's Wally Martinez as leaders of Am Law 100 firms.
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By Tasha Norman | October 14, 2021
"Have the courage to do things differently and take a path that diverges from the leaders who came before you. You can chart your own course, staying true to your values and your intuition. You may very well become the paradigm that someone else wants to follow."
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By Susan Freeman and Gina Rubel | October 14, 2021
Neighborhood segregation resulted from racially explicit laws, regulations and government practices that created a system of urban ghettos and white suburbs that still exist today. This is opposite to the widely held de facto segregation myth that "neighborhood sorting" and "white flight" were the result of citizens having free and equal choice where they lived.
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By Hugo Guzman | October 13, 2021
"I think we would all acknowledge that the pace of change has not been fast enough," Home Depot deputy general counsel Peter Muniz said.
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By Dan Packel | October 13, 2021
The Equity Project launched three years ago with $50 million to support women-led matters.
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By Maria Lewis and Vanessa Tabler | October 13, 2021
Big Law firms, and the legal industry generally, have long engaged in dialogue regarding diversity and the retention of diverse attorneys, yet those often well-intentioned words have not produced enough tangible results.
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By Trudy Knockless | October 13, 2021
"I think what a lot of us have had to do is take a couple of decades of D&I commitment and translate that into the moments of last summer," one panelist said.
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