Diversity and Inclusion
We have a dedicated partner champion for diversity issues and members of the human resources team who work on diversity issues day-to-day.
We run bi-monthly ‘Diversity: What it Means to Us’ workshops which all new employees attend and to which all existing employees are strongly encouraged to come.
We are members of the Law Society Equality and Diversity Forum, which two of our partners regularly attend.
We support the City Solicitors Educational Trust (CSET) in a new education project reaching out to a wider range of universities in a new diversity drive. Along with a number of other major law firms, we are helping to finance a new summer school project which aims to encourage students from a wider range of universities to consider a career in law.
We are a member of Stonewall's Diversity Champions programme, which is Britain's good practice forum in which employers can work with Stonewall and each other to promote lesbian, gay and bisexual equality in the workplace.
We are a member of the Employers' Forum on Disability. The Forum has spearheaded many initiatives that encourage businesses to work with disabled people, whether as employees, customers or simply fellow citizens. We are also a member of the Employers' Forum on Age.
We are supporting the Social Mobility Foundation, a registered charity which is working to secure internships in major private and public sector institutions for high achieving A level students from low income backgrounds. The Foundation is unique and innovative in that it brings bright young people into contact with world-class employers and careers to which they might not have normally had access. We think it is very important that we play our part in helping young people, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, to understand more about what it takes to work in a professional services firm such as ours.
We were ranked 28th nationally, across all sizes and types of firm, in the 2007 Legal Diversity league table that is produced in conjunction with the Law Society. In terms of our peer group firms, the upper mid-market firms, we ranked fourth.
The latest statistics on ethnicity, age, and gender set out below, were correct as at 31 January 2008.
Ethnicity
| White European | Black | Indian | Pakistani | Chinese | Asian Other | Other | |
| Partner | 94.5% | 0.8% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 4.7% |
| Associate | 83.7% | 1.3% | 3.4% | 1.1% | 0.3% | 1.3% | 8.7% |
| Trainee | 84.1% | 1.6% | 1.6% | 1.6% | 3.2% | 1.6% | 6.4% |
| Support | 80.2% | 6.2% | 4.2% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.9% | 6.6% |
| Firmwide | 83.5% | 3.5% | 3.2% | 0.8% | 0.6% | 1.0% | 7.4% |
Age profile
| Age Group | Percentage |
| <20 years | 1% |
| 21-30 years | 37% |
| 31-40 years | 30% |
| 41-50 years | 21% |
| 51-60 years | 10% |
| 61+ years | 1% |
Gender
| Male | Female | |
| Partner | 77% | 23% |
| Associate | 44% | 56% |
| Trainees | 38% | 62% |
| Support | 23% | 77% |
| Firmwide | 38% | 62% |
Sexual orientation
| Sexual Orientation | Percentage |
| Heterosexual | 86.0% |
| Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender | 8.7% |
| Preferred not to say | 5.3% |
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