New Partners At Paul Hastings: 80 Percent Women
This is not surprising, given the firm's commitment to diversity, but it's still welcome news.
The Paul Hastings Tower in Los Angeles (by Coolcaesar via Wikimedia)
When it comes to diversity in newly announced Biglaw partner classes, we seem to be in a good news/bad news pattern. We got good news from Cravath, bad news from Sullivan & Cromwell, good news from Wachtell Lipton, and bad news from Cleary Gottlieb.
Today we bring you good news, this time from Paul Hastings. Earlier this month, the firm named five new partners, who will join the partnership effective February 1, 2017. Of those five, four are women, and one is Asian — an impressively diverse group.
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The strong performance of Paul Hastings on this metric is not surprising. As we noted earlier this year, PH is a top law firm for diversity. But it’s nice to see this tradition continuing.
The new partners also exhibit diversity in terms of practice areas and geography. The group consists of one employment lawyer (with a litigation focus), one corporate lawyer, one finance lawyer, and two lawyers specializing in white-collar criminal defense and government investigations. Two are based in New York, two are based in Los Angeles, and one is based in Shanghai.
Congratulations to this impressive quintet of attorney talent, and congratulations to Paul Hastings for maintaining its strong track record for diversity and inclusion.
P.S. If you’re interested in gender diversity in the legal profession, please check out our Law Firm Gender Diversity Index.
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(Flip to the next page for the official announcement, from chairman Seth Zachary and managing partners Greg Nitzkowski and Stephen Harris, and bios of the five incoming partners.)
Earlier: Law Firm Gender Diversity Index
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David Lat is the founder and managing editor of Above the Law and the author of Supreme Ambitions: A Novel. He previously worked as a federal prosecutor in Newark, New Jersey; a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; and a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. You can connect with David on Twitter (@DavidLat), LinkedIn, and Facebook, and you can reach him by email at dlat@abovethelaw.com.
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