More Women Lawyers Promoted to Partner in Past Year, Report Says

A new study finds that women are picking up some ground when it comes to making partner at major law firms despite the legal industry’s ongoing gender equity challenges.

The new report released by the Diversity & Flexibility Alliance, a think tank that advocates for diversity and inclusion in the workplace, said that roughly 41.3% of lawyers promoted to partnership across 138 major firms in the U.S. in 2019 were women, up from 38.9% last year.

This marks a substantial increase from 2012 when the Alliance began collecting data, and the share of women among new partner classes was only ...