Despite #MeToo, Gender Gap Has Miles to Go

Two years after the rise of #MeToo, gender gap issues in law firms are still making headlines. The revelations present challenges both to the firms’ internal stakeholders and the corporate legal departments that retain them, experts say.

In a recent survey of nearly 7,000 attorneys, across 135 countries, one in three female attorneys polled by the International Bar Association stated they had been sexually harassed at work. Half the respondents said they had been bullied. Concurrently, the details of a sex discrimination suit against an international law firm have remained newsworthy, as reported by Bloomberg Law.

The ripple effects extend ...