Lawsuit: Chadbourne’s Women Partners Earned Fraction of What Men Earned

Female partners at Chadbourne & Parke earned approximately 72 percent as much as their male counterparts for three straight years from 2013 to 2015, according to a statistical analysis by a former and current Chadbourne partner who have filed a proposed gender discrimination federal class-action against the firm in Manhattan.

The numbers were disclosed after a federal judge overseeing the case released a partially unredacted version of the plaintiffs’ memorandum of law in support of conditional class-certification.

Based on their statistical analysis of partner base pay as determined by the firm’s points system, women in the firm’s partnership ranks earned:

• On average, 71.5 percent of what the ...