How many women make partner in The Am Law 100 and Second Hundred these days? I didn’t know either. So I spent a couple of weekends with a four-year sample: our list of partners promoted since January 2008. Of the nearly 5,000 names, almost 1,500 were women, or 30 percent.
For me, that’s an incredibly useful number. Now we have a benchmark against which we can track behavior in the big-firm community. To that end, we are unveiling a Women Partner Watch page featuring an interactive graphic on which we plot firm-by-firm promotions against the profession’s 30 percent standard. This isn’t a measure of which firms say they’re good for women; this is a measure of actual firm behavior. (On the same page, you’ll find an accompanying story about this year’s new partner class that in addition to looking at the gender breakdown, examines other trends as well.)
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