According to the Project for Attorney Retention's annual report in 2008, fourteen out of 100 law firms surveyed didn’t include a single woman in their partner promotions last year. However, 23 of the law firms surveyed had partnership classes of at least 40 percent women, and many of the 23 already had a good record of promoting women.
Among those 23 firms was Holland & Hart, where half of the lawyers promoted to partnership were women.
PAR is part of the Center of WorkLife Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, and it advocates for reduced hours as a way for law firms to retain attorneys, particularly women and minorities. Its survey of women partners looked only at U.S. law firm offices.
The National Law Journal, The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times, the ABA Journal, and Above the Law ran stories on the findings. Click the publication to read its aricle.
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