These firms are 'ceiling smashers' for having highest percentage of women in equity partnerships
Women lawyers still lag behind their male counterparts in leadership positions, according to Law360 Pulse’s 2024 Women in Law Report. (Image from Shutterstock)
Women lawyers still lag behind their male counterparts in leadership positions, according to Law360 Pulse's 2024 Women in Law Report.
Women make up 40.6% of all lawyers, but they make up only 25.9% of equity partners, 34.6% of nonequity partners and 33% of executive committee members, according to survey data cited by Law360. Among all partners, 29% are women.
Women lawyers are also leaving their law firms at rates that exceed their representation in firms. Forty-five percent of lawyers who left their firms last year were women.
In a separate article, Law360 named firms that are “ceiling smashers” for their higher percentages of female equity partners.
For firms with 601 or more lawyers, the top 10 for firms for female equity partners were:
1) Littler Mendelson, 38.2%
2) Willkie Farr & Gallagher, 36.1%
3) Jackson Lewis, 36%
4) Davis Wright Tremaine, 33.9%
5/6) Covington & Burling, 32.7%; Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, 32.7% (tied)
7) Ropes & Gray, 32.6%
8) Jones Day, 32.4%
9) Morrison & Foerster, 32.1%
10) Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, 31.7%
Among firms with 251 to 600 attorneys, the top 10 were:
1) Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, 57.8%
2) Day Pitney, 37.5%
3) Fredrikson & Byron, 35.5%
4) Marshall Dennehey, 35.1%
5) Kutak Rock, 33.8%
6) Thompson Coburn, 31.9%
7) Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, 31%
8) Bond, Schoeneck & King, 30.5%
9) Shook, Hardy & Bacon, 29%
10) McCarter & English, 28.8%; Steptoe, 28.8% (tied)
