Women are on course to make up almost 50% of this year's new UK partners as more
firms unveil female-friendly promotion rounds.
Olswang has spurned men altogether, making up three new female partners in the UK (and two more internationally). Liverpool-based Weightmans has also gone full sit-down wee, making up three female lawyers and its female HR director. Meanwhile several firms have announced rounds which are heavily weighted towards women. Of BLM's six new partners, only one is a man, while CMS has made up seven women versus three men.
Overall, according to RollOnFriday's figures, the proportion of new partners who are female is now at 45%, so some firms are still putting more men than women onto the letterhead. Nabarro for example announced an all-male round, while Stephenson Harwood has promoted four men but only one woman. However, the margins are frequently more slim. Six women have been made up at DAC Beachcroft; 40% of the total. And the same ratio has been produced by Clyde & Co and Taylor Wessing. The percentage of new female partners is a creditable 43% at Allen & Overy, which announced its promotions this week.
The news comes on the heels of this year's Times list of the top 50 employers of women, in which nine spots were taken by law firms, more than any other sector except financial services. Eversheds, Freshfields, Herbert Smith Freehills, Hogan Lovells, Linklaters, Norton Rose Fulbright, Obelisk Support and Simmons & Simmons all made the cut, to their HR and PR teams' delight. As did female clean-sweeper Olswang. The firm's CEO, Michael Burdon, said Olswang knows "good intentions are not enough to achieve genuine equality" and that "we have been working hard to ensure that our culture is truly inclusive".
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Olswang has spurned men altogether, making up three new female partners in the UK (and two more internationally). Liverpool-based Weightmans has also gone full sit-down wee, making up three female lawyers and its female HR director. Meanwhile several firms have announced rounds which are heavily weighted towards women. Of BLM's six new partners, only one is a man, while CMS has made up seven women versus three men.
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Overall, according to RollOnFriday's figures, the proportion of new partners who are female is now at 45%, so some firms are still putting more men than women onto the letterhead. Nabarro for example announced an all-male round, while Stephenson Harwood has promoted four men but only one woman. However, the margins are frequently more slim. Six women have been made up at DAC Beachcroft; 40% of the total. And the same ratio has been produced by Clyde & Co and Taylor Wessing. The percentage of new female partners is a creditable 43% at Allen & Overy, which announced its promotions this week.
The news comes on the heels of this year's Times list of the top 50 employers of women, in which nine spots were taken by law firms, more than any other sector except financial services. Eversheds, Freshfields, Herbert Smith Freehills, Hogan Lovells, Linklaters, Norton Rose Fulbright, Obelisk Support and Simmons & Simmons all made the cut, to their HR and PR teams' delight. As did female clean-sweeper Olswang. The firm's CEO, Michael Burdon, said Olswang knows "good intentions are not enough to achieve genuine equality" and that "we have been working hard to ensure that our culture is truly inclusive".
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