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Stonewall rankings 2019 released

23 January 2019
Issue: 7825 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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Two law firms scooped first and second place in lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) charity Stonewall’s Top 100 Employers 2019 list, which rates organisations for LGBT-inclusive policies. Pinsent Masons took first place in the list (it was second last year) followed by Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner. Overall, law firms featured prominently, with Baker McKenzie in tenth place, and Dentons, Travers Smith, Norton Rose Fulbright, Hogan Lovells, Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, and Taylor Wessing ranked in the top 50. Pinsent Masons senior partner Richard Foley said the firm ‘has created an inclusive workplace that enables everyone to be themselves’.
Issue: 7825 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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