The U.S. branch of Eversheds Sutherland has adopted a bold new initiative to transform the gender balance of its partnership, aiming to have at least 30 percent of its total partners and its equity partners be women by 2021.

Only a handful of other large firms have publicly set similar 30 percent targets—in an industry where only 19 percent of equity partners, on average, are women. Eversheds Sutherland US has launched a firmwide Women’s Leadership Initiative to help it reach its goal.