Dorsey Again Earns Gold Standard Certification from Women in Law Empowerment Forum
October 12 2017 - 4:35PM
Business Wire
International law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP announced today
that it has once again received Gold Standard Certification from
the Women in Law Empowerment Forum (WILEF). WILEF Certification is
the only initiative directed toward certifying, publicly
recognizing and broadly publicizing eligible law firms that have
integrated women into the highest leadership positions in the
firm.
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“We are pleased that the Women in Law Empowerment Forum has once
again chosen Dorsey to be Gold Standard-Certified,” noted Ken
Cutler, Managing Partner of Dorsey & Whitney. “We are committed
to the advancement of women within the Firm and throughout the
legal profession.”
Law firms with 300 or more practicing lawyers in the United
States are eligible for the WILEF Gold Standard Certification if
they successfully demonstrate that women represent a meaningful
percentage of their equity partners, of their highest leadership
positions, of their governance and compensation committees and of
their most highly compensated partners. Only 45 firms nationally
have qualified for this recognition to date in 2017. Dorsey was
previously certified as WILEF Gold Standard in 2011, 2012, 2015,
and 2016.
“It's an honor to be awarded with this prestigious
certification, again, and it is testament to our culture of
supporting women as leaders,” said Rebecca Bernhard, Firm-wide
Diversity Co-Chair and a Partner in the Labor & Employment
Group. “Gender equity is among the Firm’s longstanding priorities.
We are proud of what we have accomplished, but recognize the
advancement of women in the law is a long-term process.”
WILEF’s Gold Standard Certification, a program now in its
seventh year, has become harder to obtain following the decision to
tighten some of the criteria that firms must meet to demonstrate
their commitment to promoting and fairly compensating women.
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