2023 Best Law Firms for Women and Diversity Winners

Each year Seramount surveys law firms to assess how they utilize best practices to recruit, retain, develop and advance lawyers who are women, people of color, and those from under-represented groups.

2023 Winning Law Firms

(in alphabetical order)

  • Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
  • Arnold & Porter
  • Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC
  • Bass, Berry & Sims PLC
  • Blank Rome LLP
  • Chapman and Cutler LLP
  • Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete
  • Cooley LLP
  • Covington & Burling LLP
  • Cozen O’Connor
  • Crowell & Moring LLP
  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • DLA Piper LLP (US)
  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • Erickson Immigration Group
  • Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
  • Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
  • Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz
  • Goodwin Procter LLP (“Goodwin”)
  • Hanson Bridgett LLP
  • Holland & Knight LLP
  • Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
  • Jackson Lewis P.C.
  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • Kirkland & Ellis LLP
  • Latham & Watkins LLP
  • Lathrop GPM, LLP
  • Littler
  • Lowenstein Sandler LLP
  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky, and Popeo, P.C.
  • Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
  • Morrison Foerster
  • Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP
  • Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
  • Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • Perkins Coie
  • Proskauer Rose
  • Ropes & Gray LLP
  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • Sheppard Mullin
  • Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.
  • Sidley Austin LLP
  • Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
  • Stokes Lawrence P.S.
  • Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • WilmerHale
  • Winston & Strawn LLP

Spotlight

Opportunities for women, people of color and those from under-represented groups connects the law firms on the 2023 list. Read more about some of these notable law firms.

Methodology

Seramount’s 2023 Best Law Firms for Women & Diversity application includes more than 300 questions about attorney demographics at different levels, flexibility, paid time off and parental leaves, and development and retention of women and people of color as well as those from other underrepresented groups. Questions about family-friendly benefits and mentoring and sponsorship participation are also included.

Highlights

PROGRESS AT THE TOP
What puts them at the top?
2023 BEST LAW FIRMS
FOR WOMEN AND DIVERSITY
of lawyers are women
of equity partners are women
of lawyers are people of color
of women lawyers hired are women of color
offer formal mentoring
offer formal sponsorship
MORE SUPPORT AT ALL LEVELS
BETTER BENEFITS ACROSS THE BOARD
Average fully paid gender-neutral parental leave for associates is 17 weeks
offer backup childcare
subsidize everyday childcare

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