Digging Into Legal Diversity Rankings

For the fourth year in a row, White & Case scored the highest ranking in The American Lawyer’s annual diversity report, which measures the largest U.S. law firms based on the percentage of minority lawyers they have at the firm and in their partner ranks.

The report, published in May, showed that White & Case’s 656 U.S. lawyers are comprised of 33.4 percent minority attorneys and 20.6 percent minority partners. Minority is defined in the scorecard as Asian-American, African-American, Latino or Hispanic, Native American and self-described multiracial.

Meanwhile, the firm ranked No. 5 in terms of minority representation in equity partnerships, ...