Norton Rose Fulbright has narrowed its gender and ethnicity pay gaps, while transatlantic rival Squire Patton Boggs has set improved diversity targets for its U.K. offices, the firms have announced.

Norton Rose’s latest pay gap figures show a nearly 8% drop in its mean hourly gender pay gap among partners to 24%, in a year so far defined by widening or stagnating pay gaps at the top level of the profession.