female opportunity gap::Washington, DC (from betterlegalprofession.org)
this chart measures the decline in female participation as attorneys advance
from associates to partners. high ranked firms demonstrate greater opportunities
for advancement.
| rank |
firm |
female
associate |
female
partner |
opportunity
gap |
| 1 | Sutherland Asbill & Brennan | 42.9% | 27.0% | 37.1% |
| 2 | Dla Piper Us | 48.2% | 29.1% | 39.6% |
| 3 | Mckenna Long & Aldridge | 38.5% | 23.0% | 40.3% |
| 4 | Boies, Schiller & Flexner | 37.3% | 20.8% | 44.2% |
| 5 | Sughrue Mion, P | 30.8% | 17.0% | 44.8% |
| 6 | Latham & Watkins | 39.1% | 21.3% | 45.5% |
| 7 | Kirkland & Ellis | 45.6% | 23.1% | 49.3% |
| 8 | Howrey | 45.3% | 22.9% | 49.4% |
| 9 | Wilmerhale | 52.3% | 26.0% | 50.3% |
| 10 | Wiley Rein | 42.2% | 20.8% | 50.7% |
| 11 | Dow Lohnes | 43.5% | 21.3% | 51% |
| 12 | White & Case | 45.1% | 21.9% | 51.4% |
| 13 | Mcdermott Will & Emery | 47.6% | 23.1% | 51.5% |
| 14 | Bingham Mccutchen | 41.9% | 20.3% | 51.6% |
| 15 | Hogan & Hartson | 53.7% | 25.6% | 52.3% |
| 16 | Williams & Connolly | 33.6% | 16.0% | 52.4% |
| 17 | Nixon Peabody | 42.9% | 20.0% | 53.4% |
| 18 | Arent Fox | 52.9% | 24.6% | 53.5% |
| 19 | Steptoe & Johnson | 44.9% | 20.5% | 54.3% |
| 20 | Hunton & Williams | 29.3% | 12.9% | 56% |
| 21 | Covington & Burling | 52.0% | 22.8% | 56.2% |
| 22 | Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner | 39.7% | 17.2% | 56.7% |
| 23 | Baker Botts | 36.9% | 15.9% | 56.9% |
| 24 | King & Spalding | 56.4% | 24.1% | 57.3% |
| 25 | Kelley Drye & Warren | 41.7% | 17.8% | 57.3% |
| 26 | Morgan, Lewis & Bockius | 43.1% | 18.2% | 57.8% |
| 27 | O'Melveny & Myers | 47.9% | 20.0% | 58.2% |
| 28 | Patton Boggs | 52.7% | 21.1% | 60% |
| 29 | Crowell & Moring | 54.5% | 21.7% | 60.2% |
| 30 | Holland & Knight | 50.0% | 19.7% | 60.6% |
| 31 | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman | 57.0% | 22.4% | 60.7% |
| 32 | Sidley Austin | 44.6% | 17.1% | 61.7% |
| 33 | Dickstein Shapiro | 47.3% | 17.9% | 62.2% |
| 34 | Venable Llp - Baltimore | 51.0% | 18.9% | 62.9% |
| 35 | Arnold & Porter | 43.1% | 15.9% | 63.1% |
| 36 | Mayer Brown | 44.4% | 16.3% | 63.3% |
| 37 | K&L Gates | 53.7% | 19.5% | 63.7% |
| 38 | Jones Day | 43.5% | 15.6% | 64.1% |
| 39 | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom | 42.8% | 15.2% | 64.5% |
| 40 | Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton | 42.0% | 14.3% | 66% |
| 41 | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher | 40.4% | 13.7% | 66.1% |
| 42 | Goodwin Procter | 57.8% | 18.5% | 68% |
| 43 | Foley & Lardner | 47.3% | 14.7% | 68.9% |
| 44 | Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker | 46.1% | 14.3% | 69% |
| 45 | Dewey & Leboeuf | 44.2% | 13.6% | 69.2% |
| 46 | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld | 46.3% | 12.1% | 73.9% |
| 47 | Winston & Strawn | 36.5% | 9.2% | 74.8% |
| 48 | Alston & Bird | 46.3% | 11.1% | 76% |
| 49 | Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson | 41.3% | 8.3% | 79.9% |
| 50 | Willkie Farr & Gallagher | 45.5% | 5.3% | 88.4% |