Firms are identified by the office with the most attorneys. If no more than 45 percent of a firm’s attorneys are in one region, it is deemed national; if more than 40 percent are outside the United States, it is labeled international. Partner data is for equity and nonequity partners. Nonpartner figures include associates, special counsel, of counsel, and other staff attorneys. We do not include contract attorneys. “Other minority” covers Native Americans and those who report being multiracial. Unless otherwise noted, all data was of September 30, 2008.
In our view, ethnic diversity is defined primarily in American terms. When you ask whether a firm is achieving ethnic diversity, you’re asking how well it’s doing in hiring minority Americans. In the past, some firms had trouble accurately reporting the citizenship of all their attorneys. For this reason, we now ask firms to count only the minority attorneys working in U.S. offices. Dividing that number by the number of all attorneys a firm employs in the United States gives us the percentage of a firm’s U.S. attorneys who are members of ethnic minorities.
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