Ten law firms have been listed in Stonewall's top 100 employers of lesbian, gay and bisexual staff with Freshfields and Norton Rose Fulbright join the eight who had previously been listed in 2013.
Simmons & Simmons is the highest placed law firm for the sixth year in a row. It came eighth, one place up on last year, despite the hurdle of an office in Saudi Arabia where homosexuality is illegal and getting stoned on a Friday night has rather more sinister connotations than in London. Partner David Stone, Co-Chair of Simmons' LGBT network, said "law is often considered as conservative, so it’s also pleasing to see that so many UK firms have ranked so well. We’re competing against prejudice, not against each other".
Other firms that made the cut were Baker & McKenzie (19th), CMS Cameron McKenna (30th), Herbert Smith Freehills (30th), Hogan Lovells (35th), Eversheds (45th), Pinsent Masons (45th), Irwin Mitchell (58th), Freshfields (66th) and Norton Rose Fulbright (66th).
The results seem to accord with RollOnFriday's survey a few years back which found that firms were generally extremely gay friendly ("plenty of cock and bum fun", as one City lawyer prosaically put it). And Freshfields, as the first Magic Circle firm ever to make the top 100, was particularly delighted. Even if the firm still has some way to go. One gay Freshfields lawyer quipped that "it'll be nice when we are put in charge of office interior design".
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Simmons & Simmons is the highest placed law firm for the sixth year in a row. It came eighth, one place up on last year, despite the hurdle of an office in Saudi Arabia where homosexuality is illegal and getting stoned on a Friday night has rather more sinister connotations than in London. Partner David Stone, Co-Chair of Simmons' LGBT network, said "law is often considered as conservative, so it’s also pleasing to see that so many UK firms have ranked so well. We’re competing against prejudice, not against each other".
Other firms that made the cut were Baker & McKenzie (19th), CMS Cameron McKenna (30th), Herbert Smith Freehills (30th), Hogan Lovells (35th), Eversheds (45th), Pinsent Masons (45th), Irwin Mitchell (58th), Freshfields (66th) and Norton Rose Fulbright (66th).
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The results seem to accord with RollOnFriday's survey a few years back which found that firms were generally extremely gay friendly ("plenty of cock and bum fun", as one City lawyer prosaically put it). And Freshfields, as the first Magic Circle firm ever to make the top 100, was particularly delighted. Even if the firm still has some way to go. One gay Freshfields lawyer quipped that "it'll be nice when we are put in charge of office interior design".
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