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diversity rankings::Washington, DC::black (from betterlegalprofession.org)

partners						associates
rank	firm	percent	M	F		rank	firm	percent	M	F
1	Baker Botts	8.7	3	1	A	1	Dewey & Leboeuf	15.8	1	8	A
2	Jones Day	6.4	5	1		2	Foley & Lardner	12.2	3	2
3	Venable Llp - Baltimore	6.3	6	2		3	Patton Boggs	11.6	1	9
4	Holland & Knight	5.5	3	3		4	Howrey	11.0	2	12
5	Howrey	5.2	4	2		5	Mckenna Long & Aldridge	10.2	2	3
6	Patton Boggs	5.1	5	2		6	Skadden, Arps	9.5	3	11
7	Dickstein Shapiro	4.7	3	2		7	Wilmerhale	8.6	8	11
8	Wilmerhale	4.7	3	2		8	Dow Lohnes	8.6	0	3
9	Williams & Connolly	4.6	3	2		9	Winston & Strawn	8.6	1	5
10	Sughrue Mion, P	4.3	1	1	B	10	Morgan, Lewis & Bockius	8.5	3	8	B
11	Paul, Hastings	3.1	0	1		11	Pillsbury Winthrop	8.2	3	3
12	White & Case	3.1	1	0		12	K&L Gates	8.0	2	4
13	Akin Gump	3.1	2	1		13	Dla Piper Us	7.7	1	2
14	Crowell & Moring	3.0	1	3		14	Steptoe & Johnson	7.7	6	2
15	Covington & Burling	2.9	2	2		15	Arnold & Porter	7.6	7	11
16	K&L Gates	2.9	1	2		16	Hogan & Hartson	7.4	3	14
17	Arnold & Porter	2.9	3	1		17	Kelley Drye & Warren	7.3	0	4
18	Skadden, Arps	2.6	0	2		18	Kirkland & Ellis	7.2	5	3
19	O'Melveny & Myers	2.6	0	1	C	19	Akin Gump	7.1	4	4	C
20	Arent Fox	2.5	2	1		20	Venable Llp - Baltimore	6.5	2	4
21	Hogan & Hartson	2.5	3	3		21	Fried, Frank	6.5	1	3
22	Kirkland & Ellis	2.4	1	1		22	Dickstein Shapiro	6.5	3	3
23	Dla Piper Us	2.3	0	2		23	Arent Fox	6.2	0	6
24	Wiley Rein	2.3	2	1		24	Sughrue Mion, P	5.8	1	2
25	Bingham Mccutchen	2.2	2	0		25	White & Case	5.8	2	4
26	Kelley Drye & Warren	2.2	1	0		26	Crowell & Moring	5.6	4	2
27	Finnegan, Henderson	2.2	2	0		27	Holland & Knight	5.3	2	1
28	Morgan, Lewis & Bockius	2.0	1	1	D	28	Mcdermott Will & Emery	5.1	3	1	D
29	King & Spalding	1.8	1	0		29	Williams & Connolly	4.6	5	1
30	Mcdermott Will & Emery	1.6	1	1		30	Sutherland Asbill	4.5	1	2
31	Foley & Lardner	1.6	1	0		31	Covington & Burling	4.4	4	7
32	Mayer Brown	1.4	1	0		32	Hunton & Williams	4.3	1	3
33	Sutherland Asbill	1.4	1	0		33	Sidley Austin	4.2	1	4
34	Hunton & Williams	1.2	1	0		34	Bingham Mccutchen	4.2	1	2
35	Pillsbury Winthrop	1.1	0	1		35	Jones Day	3.7	3	1
36	Latham & Watkins	1.1	1	0		36	Baker Botts	3.3	0	2
37	Sidley Austin	0.9	1	0	F	37	Mayer Brown	3.2	2	0	F
38	Steptoe & Johnson	0.9	0	1		38	Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher	2.9	0	3
39	Willkie Farr & Gallagher	0.0	0	0		39	Cleary Gottlieb	2.9	1	1
40	Cleary Gottlieb	0.0	0	0		40	Paul, Hastings	2.6	0	2
41	Dow Lohnes	0.0	0	0		41	O'Melveny & Myers	2.3	1	1
42	Fried, Frank	0.0	0	0		42	Finnegan, Henderson	2.3	3	0
43	Dewey & Leboeuf	0.0	0	0		43	Wiley Rein	2.1	1	1
44	Mckenna Long & Aldridge	0.0	0	0		44	Latham & Watkins	1.9	2	1
45	Winston & Strawn	0.0	0	0		45	King & Spalding	1.3	0	1
46	Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher	0.0	0	0		46	Willkie Farr & Gallagher	0.0	0	0

This chart ranks the percentage of black partners and associates at Washington, DC law offices.

An asterisk indicates that the firm did not provide this information. We treated missing data as if it were zero.

The chart includes all firms with 100 attorneys in their Washington, DC office. See How We Did This for more on our ranking process.

Firms are graded on a curve. We divide the firms into quintiles, and then assign letter grades based on this division. We combined the grades with those from other diversity rankings to create a diversity report card of firms' overall minority employment rates. Note that firms with zero representation in any demographic category receive an "F" regardless of quintile.

Bold denotes the top 15 most prestigious law firms in Washington, DC, according to vault's 2009 regional rankings