Diversity in law firms – percentages of women and minorities still climbing
NALP has recently released their newest demographic information from the NALP Directory of Legal Employers, and numbers were up across the board for women and minorities. The percentage of women partners is up from 17.90% in 2006 to 18.34% in 2007. The percentage of minority partners increased at almost the same rate, up from 5.00% in 2006 to 5.40% in 2007. The numbers also show increases at the associate level. Among associates, 45.06% were women and 18.07% were minorities, compared with 44.33% and 8.18% in 2006. The findings include more than 135,000 lawyers in 1,562 offices, and over 12,000 summer associates in 1,171 offices. The full report is available on the NALP website at www.nalp.org/content/index.php?pid=544.