HFW in gender diversity drive

• Localización: The Lawyer, ISSN-e 0953-7902, Vol. 30, Nº. 37 (11/2/2015), 2015
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The world this week Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) has set out an "aspirational" target to increase the number of women in its partnership to 30 per cent by 2020 as part of a wider effort to improve gender diversity.

    Women made up just 12.2 per cent of HFW's partnership at the start of 2015 but the firm has set the ambitious target amid a ramped-up focus on diversity issues this year.

    The firm will initially focus on increasing the number of junior women partners, with a recognition that the target will be hard to hit.

    Over this summer HFW commissioned an independent consultant to carry out a series of focus group exercises with its female lawyers, speaking to 68 per cent of female partners and associates in the process