diversity rankings::Northern California::black (from betterlegalprofession.org)
abbreviations: SF = San Francisco, SV = Silicon Valley
| partners | associates | ||||||||||
| rank | firm | percent | M | F | rank | firm | percent | M | F | ||
| 1 | Morgan, Lewis & Bockius (SF) | 9.1 | 3 | 1 | A | 1 | Bingham Mccutchen (SF) | 6.7 | 1 | 4 | A |
| 2 | Bingham Mccutchen (SF) | 4.3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe (SF) | 5.9 | 3 | 3 | ||
| 3 | Wilson Sonsini (SV) | 3.4 | 4 | 0 | B | 3 | Morrison & Foerster (SF) | 5.3 | 2 | 5 | B |
| 4 | Latham & Watkins (SF) | 2.9 | 1 | 0 | 4 | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe (SV) | 3.6 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 5 | Hanson, Bridgett (SF) | 2.5 | 2 | 0 | C | 5 | Wilson Sonsini (SV) | 2.8 | 4 | 2 | C |
| 6 | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe (SF) | 2.4 | 2 | 0 | 6 | Farella Braun + Martel (SF) | 2.4 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 7 | Morrison & Foerster (SF) | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | D | 7 | Sedgwick, Detert (SF) | 2.1 | 0 | 1 | D |
| 8 | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe (SV) | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | F | 8 | Pillsbury Winthrop (SF) | 2.1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 9 | Sedgwick, Detert (SF) | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | Latham & Watkins (SF) | 1.1 | 0 | 1 | F | |
| 10 | Farella Braun + Martel (SF) | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | Cooley Godward Kronish (SV) | 0.9 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 11 | Pillsbury Winthrop (SF) | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | Morgan, Lewis & Bockius (SF) | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 12 | Cooley Godward Kronish (SV) | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | Hanson, Bridgett (SF) | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | ||
This chart ranks the percentage of black partners and associates at Northern California 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 Northern California office, as well as any firm included in Vault's 2009 rankings for top 10 firms in Northern California. 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 10 most prestigious law firms in Northern California, according to vault's 2009 regional rankings
"SV" in this chart stands for Silicon Valley and includes Palo Alto and Menlo Park.