A 2015 Look at Women and the Glass Ceiling

Today, Law360 released findings from its second Glass Ceiling Report. The series includes two rankings, identifying the top 100 law firms for female attorneys to thrive in and 25 Ceiling Smashers with the highest percentage of female partners. Check out the series’ release stories below, and look out for additional coverage throughout the week. 

The 100 Best Law Firms For Female Attorneys
For the first time ever, Law360 has ranked the 100 best U.S. law firms for women, based on the firm's female representation at the partner and nonpartner levels and its total number of female attorneys.

Law Firm Biases Continue To Thwart Women
U.S. law firms are not hiring or promoting more female attorneys than they were a year ago, a failure that everyone from in-house attorneys to BigLaw bosses says can only change when the industry confronts its deep-rooted unconscious bias about women in law.

The Best Law Firms For Female Partners
While women continue to be vastly underrepresented at the partner level in the U.S. legal industry, 25 firms have made significant strides toward gender equality at their highest ranks, earning the designation of Law360 Ceiling Smasher.

The Glass Ceiling Report
Women continue to be dramatically underrepresented at every attorney level in the U.S. legal industry, and firms made negligible progress toward gender equality in 2014, according to a Law360 head count survey of more than 300 U.S. firms.