Gender pay gap

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Clifford Chance reveals slow shift in gender pay gap figures

Clifford Chance is slowly narrowing down its gender pay gap, its most recent disclosures show, but data reveals wider disparities around sexual identity, ethnicity and disability metrics. Generally, its numbers have improved by almost 3 per cent since 2018, the first year it disclosed them. A more significant improvement pertained to bonuses, where the gap […]

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A&O reveals disability pay gap for first time

A&O employee data for 2020 for London Mean hourly gender pay gap:  16.1 per cent (down 1 per cent) Median hourly gender pay gap: 28.7 per cent (down 3.1 per cent) A&O combined partner and employee data for 2020 Mean hourly gender pay gap: 59.9 per cent (down 1.6 per cent) Median hourly gender pay […]

Clydes gender pay gap narrows, but BAME data comes up short

Clydes employee data for 2019 Mean hourly gender pay gap:  24.6 per cent (up 4.7 per cent) Median hourly gender pay gap: 36.8 per cent (down 4.9 per cent) Clydes combined partner and employee data for 2019 Mean hourly gender pay gap: 56.8 per cent (down  6 per cent) Median hourly gender pay gap: 37 […]

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Gender pay gap: Linklaters is second magic circle firm to report

Linklaters employee data for 2019 Mean hourly gender pay gap: 19.5 per cent (down  1.3 per cent) Median hourly gender pay gap: 35.7 per cent (up 1.8 per cent) Linklaters combined partner and employee data for 2019 Mean hourly gender pay gap: 62.6 per cent (up 1.5 per cent) Median hourly gender pay gap: 39.1 […]

Allen & Overy

A&O kicks off gender pay gap reporting season early

A&O employee data for 2019 Mean hourly gender pay gap:  17.1 per cent (down  2.9 per cent) Median hourly gender pay gap: 31.8 per cent (down 1 per cent) A&O combined partner and employee data for 2019 Mean hourly gender pay gap: 61.5 per cent (up 0.3 per cent) Median hourly gender pay gap: 43.8 […]

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Shearman reveals gender pay gap despite dropping below employee threshold

Shearman & Sterling has volunteered its gender pay gap results for 2018/19, after falling just below the 250-employee threshold for this year’s round of reporting. The US firm was obliged to report in 2017/18 because its London office housed over 250 employees, but the numbers dipped over the past year meaning it did not have […]

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Gender pay gap 2018/19: Which firms submitted partner data?

A total of 74 law firms volunteered their gender pay gap data for partners, which are ranked here by the median. For mandatory data, click here. Note: Linklaters, Simmons & Simmons, Royds Withy King and Fragomen combined partner information with employee data, but did not separate the two. Forsters submitted its mean partner gender pay […]

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Gender pay gap 2018/19: How does your firm do?

A total of 117 law firms (Ashurst and Allen & Overy submitted twice to include their support centres) submitted their gender pay gap data to the UK Government for the year ending April 2018. Here are the full results in alphabetical order. These are the mandatory figures that were submitted and do not include partner […]

Gender pay gap: DLA Piper pays men £6 an hour more than women

DLA Piper has gone granular in its latest gender pay gap report, revealing that female employees are paid nearly £6 less per hour on average than their male colleagues. The firm is understood to be the first major player to breakdown what the percentages equate to in sterling. In the firm’s 2018 report, it states […]

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Freshfields joins the pack in reporting ethnicity pay gap

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has joined fellow firms in reporting its ethnicity pay gap alongside its gender pay gap, in an effort to foster a broader definition of diversity and transparency. The data shows that 13.5 per cent of the firm’s UK partners and employees identify as black, Asian or minority ethnic (BAME). These employees, including […]

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Clifford Chance: We’re going to set targets to be more inclusive

Senior management at Clifford Chance will have to set out their diversity and inclusion targets to the firm, as it continues its push to reduce its gender pay gap. Members of the firm’s executive leadership group, including managing partner Matthew Layton and new senior partner Jeroen Ouwehand, are among those who have committed to publicly […]