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HRC’s Annual Corporate Equality Index Says Top U.S. Law Firms Continue to Establish Gold Standard for LGBTQ Workplace Inclusion

Law firms continue to work toward LGBTQ workplace equality and inclusion, according to the 2019 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) issued by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization.

The HRC Foundation has strengthened criteria to meet the needs of LGBTQ workers in the most rigorous scorecard to date. Five hundred and seventy-one companies have been designated a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality for their efforts in satisfying all of the CEI’s criteria results in a 100 percent ranking. One hundred and fourteen are legal giants.

“The highly competitive legal field continues to be the sector with the largest number of top-rated employers in the Corporate Equality Index,” said Beck Bailey, acting director of the HRC Foundation’s Workplace Equality Program. “Law firm leaders know that LGBTQ inclusion is absolutely essential in attracting and retaining top attorneys and staff.”

HRC’s Corporate Equality Index (CEI) is America’s premiere benchmarking tool for LGBTQ workplace equality. The results of this year’s CEI, showcases how hundreds of U.S.-based multinational companies are not only promoting LGBTQ-friendly workplace policies in the U.S., but helping to advance the cause of LGBTQ inclusion in the workplace abroad.

The CEI rates companies and top law firms on detailed criteria in four broad categories:

-Non-discrimination policies
-Employment benefits
-Supporting an inclusive culture and corporate social responsibility including public commitment to LGBTQ equality
-Responsible citizenship

Find the list of law firms below, ordered alphabetically and then by ranking. The full report is available online at www.hrc.org/cei.

Alphabetically:

Firm Ranking
Akerman LLP 100
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP 100
Alston & Bird LLP 100
Arent Fox LLP 100
Armstrong Teasdale LLP 100
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP 100
Baker & Hostetler LLP 85
Baker & McKenzie LLP 100
Baker Botts LLP 65
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC 90
Ballard Spahr LLP 100
Barnes & Thornburg LLP 80
Bass, Berry & Sims PLC 100
Blank Rome LLP 100
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP 100
Bracewell LLP 85
Brown Rudnick LLP 100
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP 100
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC 100
Buckley LLP 100
Burr & Forman LLP 90
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP 100
Carlton Fields P.A. 100
Chadbourne & Parke LLP 60
Chapman and Cutler LLP 100
Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP 100
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP 100
Clifford Chance US LLP 85
Cooley LLP 95
Covington & Burling LLP 100
Cozen O'Connor 75
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP 90
Crowell & Moring LLP 100
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP 95
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP 90
Day Pitney LLP 100
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP 85
Dechert LLP 100
Dentons US LLP 100
Dickinson Wright PLLC 100
Dickstein Shapiro LLP 65
DLA Piper 100
Dorsey & Whitney LLP 100
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP 95
Duane Morris LLP 100
Dykema Gossett PLLC 100
Epstein Becker & Green PC 70
Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP 100
Faegre Baker Daniels 100
Fenwick & West LLP 100
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP 100
Fish & Richardson PC 100
Foley & Lardner LLP 100
Foley Hoag LLP 100
Fox Rothschild LLP 100
Fredrikson & Byron 100
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP 100
Frost Brown Todd LLC 100
Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith PLC 100
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP 85
Goodwin Procter LLP 100
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP 100
Goulston & Storrs 80
Greenberg Traurig LLP 90
Haynes and Boone LLP 100
Herrick Feinstein LLP 80
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP 100
Hogan Lovells US LLP 100
Holland & Hart LLP 35
Holland & Knight LLP 100
Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC 65
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP 90
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP 95
Husch Blackwell LLP 100
Ice Miller LLP 100
Jackson Walker LLP 75
Jenner & Block LLP 100
K&L Gates LLP 100
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP 100
Kaye Scholer LLP 80
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP 100
Kenyon & Kenyon 60
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP 100
King & Spalding LLP 100
Kirkland & Ellis LLP 100
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP 85
Kutak Rock LLP 100
Lane Powell PC 100
Latham & Watkins LLP 100
Lathrop & Gage LLP 90
LeClairRyan 95
Lindquist & Vennum LLP 80
Littler Mendelson PC 100
Locke Lord LLP 100
Loeb & Loeb LLP 100
Lowenstein Sandler LLP 100
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP 100
Mayer Brown LLP 100
McCarter & English LLP 75
McDermott Will & Emery LLP 100
McGuireWoods LLP 80
Michael Best & Friedrich LLP 100
Milbank LLP 90
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo PC 100
Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP 100
Moore & Van Allen PLLC 100
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP 95
Morris, Manning & Martin LLP 100
Morrison & Foerster LLP 100
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP 100
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP 75
Nixon Peabody LLP 100
Norton Rose Fulbright 100
O'Melveny & Myers LLP 100
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart 100
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP 100
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP 100
Patton Boggs LLP 70
Paul Hastings LLP 100
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP 85
Pepper Hamilton LLP 85
Perkins Coie LLP 100
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP 100
Polsinelli 100
Proskauer Rose LLP 90
Quarles & Brady LLP 100
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP 90
Reed Smith LLP 100
Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. 90
Robins Kaplan LLP 100
Ropes & Gray LLP 100
Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP 100
Schiff Hardin LLP 100
Schulte, Roth & Zabel LLP 95
Sedgwick LLP 80
Seyfarth Shaw LLP 100
Shearman & Sterling LLP 100
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP 100
Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP 100
Sidley Austin LLP 100
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP 100
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP 100
Snell & Wilmer 100
Squire Patton Boggs 100
Steptoe & Johnson LLP 100
Stinson Leonard Street LLP 100
Stoel Rives LLP 100
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP 85
Thompson Coburn LLP 100
Thompson Hine LLP 100
Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP 30
Troutman Sanders LLP 100
Vinson & Elkins LLP 100
Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP 100
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz 90
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP 100
White & Case LLP 100
Wiley Rein LLP 100
Williams Mullen 100
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP 85
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP 100
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC 95
Winston & Strawn LLP 100
Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP 100


By Ranking:

Firm Ranking
Akerman LLP 100
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP 100
Alston & Bird LLP 100
Arent Fox LLP 100
Armstrong Teasdale LLP 100
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP 100
Baker & McKenzie LLP 100
Ballard Spahr LLP 100
Bass, Berry & Sims PLC 100
Blank Rome LLP 100
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP 100
Brown Rudnick LLP 100
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP 100
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC 100
Buckley LLP 100
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP 100
Carlton Fields P.A. 100
Chapman and Cutler LLP 100
Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP 100
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP 100
Covington & Burling LLP 100
Crowell & Moring LLP 100
Day Pitney LLP 100
Dechert LLP 100
Dentons US LLP 100
Dickinson Wright PLLC 100
DLA Piper 100
Dorsey & Whitney LLP 100
Duane Morris LLP 100
Dykema Gossett PLLC 100
Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP 100
Faegre Baker Daniels 100
Fenwick & West LLP 100
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP 100
Fish & Richardson PC 100
Foley & Lardner LLP 100
Foley Hoag LLP 100
Fox Rothschild LLP 100
Fredrikson & Byron 100
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP 100
Frost Brown Todd LLC 100
Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith PLC 100
Goodwin Procter LLP 100
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP 100
Haynes and Boone LLP 100
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP 100
Hogan Lovells US LLP 100
Holland & Knight LLP 100
Husch Blackwell LLP 100
Ice Miller LLP 100
Jenner & Block LLP 100
K&L Gates LLP 100
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP 100
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP 100
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP 100
King & Spalding LLP 100
Kirkland & Ellis LLP 100
Kutak Rock LLP 100
Lane Powell PC 100
Latham & Watkins LLP 100
Littler Mendelson PC 100
Locke Lord LLP 100
Loeb & Loeb LLP 100
Lowenstein Sandler LLP 100
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP 100
Mayer Brown LLP 100
McDermott Will & Emery LLP 100
Michael Best & Friedrich LLP 100
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo PC 100
Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP 100
Moore & Van Allen PLLC 100
Morris, Manning & Martin LLP 100
Morrison & Foerster LLP 100
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP 100
Nixon Peabody LLP 100
Norton Rose Fulbright 100
O'Melveny & Myers LLP 100
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart 100
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP 100
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP 100
Paul Hastings LLP 100
Perkins Coie LLP 100
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP 100
Polsinelli 100
Quarles & Brady LLP 100
Reed Smith LLP 100
Robins Kaplan LLP 100
Ropes & Gray LLP 100
Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP 100
Schiff Hardin LLP 100
Seyfarth Shaw LLP 100
Shearman & Sterling LLP 100
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP 100
Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP 100
Sidley Austin LLP 100
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP 100
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP 100
Snell & Wilmer 100
Squire Patton Boggs 100
Steptoe & Johnson LLP 100
Stinson Leonard Street LLP 100
Stoel Rives LLP 100
Thompson Coburn LLP 100
Thompson Hine LLP 100
Troutman Sanders LLP 100
Vinson & Elkins LLP 100
Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP 100
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP 100
White & Case LLP 100
Wiley Rein LLP 100
Williams Mullen 100
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP 100
Winston & Strawn LLP 100
Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP 100
Cooley LLP 95
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP 95
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP 95
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP 95
LeClairRyan 95
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP 95
Schulte, Roth & Zabel LLP 95
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC 95
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC 90
Burr & Forman LLP 90
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP 90
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP 90
Greenberg Traurig LLP 90
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP 90
Lathrop & Gage LLP 90
Milbank LLP 90
Proskauer Rose LLP 90
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP 90
Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. 90
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz 90
Baker & Hostetler LLP 85
Bracewell LLP 85
Clifford Chance US LLP 85
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP 85
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP 85
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP 85
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP 85
Pepper Hamilton LLP 85
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP 85
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP 85
Barnes & Thornburg LLP 80
Goulston & Storrs 80
Herrick Feinstein LLP 80
Kaye Scholer LLP 80
Lindquist & Vennum LLP 80
McGuireWoods LLP 80
Sedgwick LLP 80
Cozen O'Connor 75
Jackson Walker LLP 75
McCarter & English LLP 75
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP 75
Epstein Becker & Green PC 70
Patton Boggs LLP 70
Baker Botts LLP 65
Dickstein Shapiro LLP 65
Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC 65
Chadbourne & Parke LLP 60
Kenyon & Kenyon 60
Holland & Hart LLP 35
Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP 30

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