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DIVERSIT YBENCHMARKINGREPORT 20161 | City Bar BENCHMARKING REPORT | 2016 2016 DIVERSITY BENCHMARKING REPORT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Signatory Firms See Gains for Women, Minorities, and LGBT Attorneys and Implement Innovative Inclusion Practices, Yet Barriers Remain For more than a decade, the City Bar BENCHMARKING research has illustrated enhanced DIVERSITY efforts in firms as well as overall incremental gains for women and minority attorneys. However, it has also recorded elevated attrition rates of both women and minorities, and a significant subset of law firms still without any minority and women attorneys in firm or department leadership roles. With regard to overall representation and hiring, the 2016 BENCHMARKING data remains relatively consistent with the results reported in 2015. We further examined the status of women and minority attorneys in the 71 firms that participated in both the 2015 and 2016 BENCHMARKING surveys and performed statistical comparisons on representation, leadership, and hiring.

2 | City Bar Benchmarking Report | 2016 • Erosion in the associate pipeline directly affects future leadership. 45% of associates are women compared to 19% of partners and 28% of associates are racial/ethnic minorities compared to 9% of partners.

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