Seyfarth Shaw Scores High Marks in Annual Corporate Equality Index
Firm also Ranks in the 2009 Edition of the Vault Guide to the Top 100
Law Firms
CHICAGO (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) September 2, 2008 --
Seyfarth Shaw LLP, one of America’s
leading full-service
law firms, today announced that it has earned a top ranking in the 2009
Corporate Equality Index (CEI), an annual survey administered by the
Human Rights Campaign Foundation. The firm proudly joins 258 other
leading U.S. businesses that earned top marks for their treatment of lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgender employees and clients.
“Our top ranking in this year’s
index highlights that Seyfarth Shaw
values our diverse
workforce and reflects our welcoming, inclusive culture,”
said J. Stephen Poor,
Chair and Managing Partner of Seyfarth Shaw. “We’re
proud of the culture
we’ve cultivated at Seyfarth
Shaw—it helps us attract and retain
top legal talent and professional
staff, and it contributes to making this an exceptionally rewarding
place to work.”
The seventh annual Corporate Equality Index rates 583 businesses on a
scale from 0 to 100 percent on their treatment of gay, lesbian, bisexual
and transgender employees, consumers and investors. The 2009 edition of
the CEI reports 259 businesses achieved a perfect score, a one-third
increase over last year when the number was 195. The 259 top-rated
businesses collectively employ more than 9 million full-time employees.
These workers are protected from employment discrimination based on
sexual orientation and gender identity or expression because of their
employers’ policies on diversity training,
health care, and domestic partnership benefits. In 2006, the first year
law firms were invited to participate in the CEI, 13 achieved a score of
100 percent. That figure has leapt to 64 in the latest edition,
eclipsing banking and financial services firms.
Seyfarth Shaw also made the ranks
of the Vault Guide to the Top 100 Law Firms. For the prestige
rankings in the 2009 issue, Vault surveyed more than 18,800 associates
at more than 167 major law firms across the country and asked them to
rank firms in terms of how prestigious it would be to work for them.
Vault also ranked the firms for their quality of life by asking
associates to rate their own firms on issues such as treatment by
partners, formal training, informal training and mentoring, hours and
compensation and then scored the firms against each other.
“We’re delighted
that others are learning what many of us have known for a very long
time: Seyfarth Shaw is a terrific
place to work,” said Judy Braun, Seyfarth
Shaw’s Chief
Talent Officer.
Seyfarth
Shaw is a full-service law firm with over 750
attorneys located in nine offices throughout the United States
including Chicago,
New
York, Boston,
Washington
D.C., Atlanta,
Houston,
Los
Angeles, San
Francisco and Sacramento,
as well as Brussels,
Belgium. The firm provides a broad range
of legal services in the areas of real estate, labor
and employment, employee
benefits, litigation
and business
services. Seyfarth Shaw’s practice
reflects virtually every industry and segment of the country’s
business and social fabric. Clients include over 300 of the Fortune
500 companies, financial institutions, newspapers and other media,
hotels, health care organizations, airlines and railroads. The firm also
represents a number of federal, state, and local governmental and
educational entities. For more information, please visit www.seyfarth.com.
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