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Simmons retains crown as Stonewall's most gay-friendly firm

It will be interesting to see how Simmons fares now that Winterfeldt has left, as he championed this and made the firm a leader in this field. To the person who rather misguidedly said that clients don’t care about this kind of thing; that is not nearly always the case. In addition, and in any event, clients’ main priority is having the best lawyers for the job. In turn, for firms to be able to attract, retain and motivate the best lawyers, providing an environment in which everyone is treated equally is a crucial. Initiatives such as these awards are not a solution in themselves, but they do show the outside world that the firms which participate are making efforts to provide and equal environment for all their staff. As to this being a smoke screen for some of Simmons’ woes, the survey is I believe published at the same time each year so the fact that this year it coincided with some other developments at the firm is not even really worthy of comment and certainly not any basis for the feeble attempts to bash the firm for issues totally unrelated to its diversity and inclusion successes.

13-Jan-2011

10:15 am