Bingham McCutchen: Land of the Amazons?
Congratulations to these five law firms, which just made Fortune magazine's list of the 100 Best Companies To Work For:
-- Alston & Bird (#19)
-- Arnold & Porter (#26)
-- Nixon Peabody (#49)
-- Perkins Coie (#64)
-- Bingham McCutchen (#94)
The Recorder has a write-up of the results, which contains some fun factoids. Did you know that each Perkins Coie office has a "Happiness Committee," which throws surprise parties for lawyers and staff?
This is unusual. Many law firms have "Unhappiness Committees," which are sometimes called "Personnel Committees" or "Associate Life Committees." But we don't know of any other firm with a "Happiness Committee."
And here's something we didn't know about the #94 company on the list, Bingham McCutchen (whose name we keep on misspelling):
[A]t Bingham, women outnumber men two to one and make up 23 percent of the partner ranks -- believed to be the highest percentage in the industry, according to the Fortune report.
No wonder the Bingham men are so happy.
Five Law Firms Score Places on Fortune Magazine's 'Best Companies' List [The Recorder via Law.com]
100 Best Companies To Work For [Fortune]
Comments
Yeah, Amazons alright. Check out this off the charts hotty:
http://www.bingham.com/bingham/attorneys_bios.asp?aid=2214
Posted by: Holy Hotty | January 9, 2007 04:03 PM
Thanks for the daily dose of heterosexism. And also for the depressing news that a firm that may be doing the best in terms of gender numbers-equality in the industry has only 23% women partners but is 67% female overall.
Posted by: Anonyme | January 9, 2007 04:27 PM
And that's because 98% of the secretaries are women which also just reflects sexism, albeit probably not intentional on Bingham's part.
Posted by: Anon | January 24, 2007 08:46 PM
I'd like to edit this one's briefs: http://www.bingham.com/bingham/attorneys_bios.asp?aid=2114
Posted by: Marie Conte | February 7, 2007 11:50 AM
I'd like to edit this one's briefs: http://www.bingham.com/bingham/attorneys_bios.asp?aid=2114
Posted by: Marie Conte | February 7, 2007 11:51 AM
Yeah, he's hot hot hot.
Posted by: Anonkneemust | February 7, 2007 05:42 PM
the place sucks, dont let these bs surveys fool you
Posted by: Anonymous | February 2, 2008 03:37 PM