12 law firms have been listed in Stonewall's top 100 employers of lesbian, gay and bisexual staff with Clifford Chance landing in the top ten for the first time.
Pinsent Masons is the highest placed law firm in the list, which scores businesses on criteria including policy, client engagement, employee engagement and LGBT community engagement. The firm came fifth behind social housing group B3living, the National Assembly for Wales, the Lloyds Banking Group and, in first place, MI5.
David Isaac, Partner and Chair of the Diversity Steering Group at Pinsent Masons, said, “We were the first law firm in the index and this is our eighth year in the rankings,". He added that the firm was "very proud of the fact that this year's results highlight the significant progress that the legal profession has made in relation to LGBT equality".
Awarding Clifford Chance ninth place, Stonewall praised the firm's Arcus Allies initiative, which is intended to promote greater inclusion of LGBT staff. It is the second year in a row that a Magic Circle firm has placed in the top ten, after Freshfields came ninth in 2015. CC London Managing partner David Bickerton said that the firm was "delighted", adding, "We believe that, in order to provide our clients with the service they expect, everyone needs to be comfortable being themselves at work".
The ten other firms that made the cut were Baker & McKenzie (11th), Freshfields (17th, and which launched its own LGBT ally scheme, Halo Champions, in 2014), Norton Rose Fulbright (22nd), Herbert Smith Freehills (25th), DWF (56th), Hogan Lovells (57th), Reed Smith (72nd), CMS Cameron McKenna (80th), Eversheds (86th) and Dentons (97th). The impressive showing accords 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 put it).
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Pinsent Masons is the highest placed law firm in the list, which scores businesses on criteria including policy, client engagement, employee engagement and LGBT community engagement. The firm came fifth behind social housing group B3living, the National Assembly for Wales, the Lloyds Banking Group and, in first place, MI5.
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David Isaac, Partner and Chair of the Diversity Steering Group at Pinsent Masons, said, “We were the first law firm in the index and this is our eighth year in the rankings,". He added that the firm was "very proud of the fact that this year's results highlight the significant progress that the legal profession has made in relation to LGBT equality".
Awarding Clifford Chance ninth place, Stonewall praised the firm's Arcus Allies initiative, which is intended to promote greater inclusion of LGBT staff. It is the second year in a row that a Magic Circle firm has placed in the top ten, after Freshfields came ninth in 2015. CC London Managing partner David Bickerton said that the firm was "delighted", adding, "We believe that, in order to provide our clients with the service they expect, everyone needs to be comfortable being themselves at work".
The ten other firms that made the cut were Baker & McKenzie (11th), Freshfields (17th, and which launched its own LGBT ally scheme, Halo Champions, in 2014), Norton Rose Fulbright (22nd), Herbert Smith Freehills (25th), DWF (56th), Hogan Lovells (57th), Reed Smith (72nd), CMS Cameron McKenna (80th), Eversheds (86th) and Dentons (97th). The impressive showing accords 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 put it).
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