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diversity rankings::Manhattan::asian (from betterlegalprofession.org)

partners						associates
rank	firm	percent	M	F		rank	firm	percent	M	F
1	Pillsbury Winthrop	10.5	5	1	A	1	Fitzpatrick, Cella	22.7	13	9	A
2	Ropes & Gray	10.3	4	3		2	Akin Gump	22.4	9	8
3	White & Case	9.6	6	5		3	Clifford Chance Us	22.3	10	19
4	Akin Gump	7.8	4	1		4	Ropes & Gray	22.2	26	22
5	Bingham Mccutchen	7.6	4	1		5	Linklaters	21.0	16	19
6	Morrison & Foerster	6.3	2	2		6	Baker & Mckenzie	20.9	5	4
7	Sidley Austin	5.9	3	4		7	Wilmerhale	19.0	12	7
8	Kirkland & Ellis	5.8	6	2		8	Kelley Drye & Warren	18.9	7	11
9	Davis Polk & Wardwell	5.6	4	3		9	Covington & Burling	17.4	5	7
10	Linklaters	5.6	2	1		10	Morrison & Foerster	17.0	6	11
11	Kelley Drye & Warren	5.4	1	2		11	Sidley Austin	16.8	13	21
12	Seward & Kissel	4.8	1	1		12	Cleary Gottlieb	16.5	26	40
13	Wilmerhale	4.8	1	1		13	Shearman & Sterling	16.3	21	18
14	Paul, Weiss	4.7	2	3	B	14	Weil, Gotshal & Manges	15.7	32	39	B
15	Latham & Watkins	4.6	3	1		15	Kirkland & Ellis	15.5	14	13
16	Fitzpatrick, Cella	4.5	1	1		16	Simpson Thacher	15.4	27	49
17	Simpson Thacher	4.5	3	3		17	Davis Polk & Wardwell	15.2	31	38
18	Shearman & Sterling	4.4	4	0		18	Paul, Hastings	14.9	13	9
19	Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft	4.3	1	2		19	White & Case	14.7	20	19
20	Schulte Roth & Zabel	4.3	2	2		20	Dla Piper Us	14.6	4	11
21	Mcdermott Will & Emery	4.2	3	0		21	Jones Day	14.5	12	20
22	Baker & Mckenzie	4.1	1	1		22	Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe	14.1	5	8
23	Kaye Scholer	3.9	2	2		23	Schulte Roth & Zabel	13.9	17	22
24	Debevoise & Plimpton	3.8	1	3		24	Milbank, Tweed	13.8	19	19
25	Epstein Becker & Green	3.3	1	1		25	Loeb & Loeb	13.5	5	2
26	Paul, Hastings	3.3	1	1		26	Dechert	13.3	5	6
27	Cleary Gottlieb	3.3	3	0	C	27	Proskauer Rose	13.0	16	12	C
28	Hogan & Hartson	3.2	1	1		28	Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft	12.8	18	11
29	Weil, Gotshal & Manges	3.2	2	3		29	Seward & Kissel	12.7	8	6
30	Kramer Levin	3.2	2	1		30	Hogan & Hartson	12.7	4	4
31	Willkie Farr & Gallagher	3.1	2	1		31	Patterson	12.6	5	9
32	Hughes Hubbard & Reed	3.0	2	0		32	Winston & Strawn	12.5	6	6
33	Jones Day	2.8	3	0		33	Skadden, Arps	12.5	33	28
34	Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe	2.7	2	0		34	Bingham Mccutchen	12.0	4	9
35	Chadbourne & Parke	2.7	1	1		35	Kaye Scholer	11.9	13	10
36	Carter Ledyard & Milburn	2.6	1	0		36	Cravath, Swaine & Moore	11.8	18	25
37	Dewey & Leboeuf	2.6	4	0		37	Debevoise & Plimpton	11.7	17	28
38	Alston & Bird	2.5	1	0		38	Latham & Watkins	11.7	11	14
39	Milbank, Tweed	2.4	1	1		39	Katten Muchin Rosenman	11.5	7	2
40	Greenberg Traurig	2.4	3	0	D	40	Morgan, Lewis & Bockius	11.5	5	6	D
41	Wachtell, Lipton	2.4	2	0		41	Dewey & Leboeuf	11.4	16	19
42	O'Melveny & Myers	2.3	1	0		42	Wachtell, Lipton	11.1	8	7
43	Clifford Chance Us	2.3	1	0		43	Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher	10.7	7	12
44	Cravath, Swaine & Moore	2.2	1	1		44	Epstein Becker & Green	10.5	3	1
45	Patterson	1.9	1	0		45	Alston & Bird	10.4	2	3
46	Herrick, Feinstein	1.5	1	0		46	Greenberg Traurig	10.1	3	6
47	Cahill Gordon & Reindel	1.5	0	1		47	Carter Ledyard & Milburn	10.0	2	2
48	Pryor Cashman	1.5	0	1		48	Pryor Cashman	10.0	2	2
49	Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher	1.4	1	0		49	Curtis, Mallet-prevost	9.9	4	4
50	Blank Rome	1.4	1	0		50	Bryan Cave	9.6	1	4
51	Morgan, Lewis & Bockius	1.4	1	0		51	Fried, Frank	9.3	9	14
52	Loeb & Loeb	1.4	1	0		52	Pillsbury Winthrop	9.3	3	2
53	Stroock & Stroock & Lavan	1.1	0	1	F	53	Stroock & Stroock & Lavan	8.7	4	9	F
54	Fried, Frank	1.1	1	0		54	Willkie Farr & Gallagher	8.1	9	15
55	Moses & Singer	0.0	0	0		55	Chadbourne & Parke	7.9	4	4
56	Fulbright & Jaworski	0.0	0	0		56	Kramer Levin	7.8	5	10
57	Covington & Burling	0.0	0	0		57	O'Melveny & Myers	7.5	3	5
58	Curtis, Mallet-prevost	0.0	0	0		58	Herrick, Feinstein	7.0	3	2
59	Bryan Cave	0.0	0	0		59	Cahill Gordon & Reindel	7.0	8	7
60	Goodwin Procter	0.0	0	0		60	Blank Rome	6.8	1	2
61	Katten Muchin Rosenman	0.0	0	0		61	Mcdermott Will & Emery	6.7	1	2
62	Dechert	0.0	0	0		62	Hughes Hubbard & Reed	6.7	2	7
63	Winston & Strawn	0.0	0	0		63	Moses & Singer	5.3	0	2
64	Mayer Brown	0.0	0	0		64	Fulbright & Jaworski	5.3	0	2
65	Dla Piper Us	0.0	0	0		65	Mayer Brown	5.0	2	4
66	Proskauer Rose	0.0	0	0		66	Goodwin Procter	4.4	1	3
67	Skadden, Arps	0.0	0	0		67	Paul, Weiss	3.5	8	6

This chart ranks the percentage of asian partners and associates at Manhattan 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 Manhattan 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 20 most prestigious law firms in Manhattan, according to vault's 2009 regional rankings