There has been much debate on the topic – how diverse the legal firms in UK are? To get the answer, a research was conducted asking the staff about the diversity. The results are presented in an understandable way in the following article.
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The latest data collected was in the year 2017 encompassing around 92% of total legal firms in London. This is comprised of details from almost 180,000 people working in almost 9,000 firms. 74% of firms had a response rate from their staff of 90% or higher. It is important to keep in mind that just more than 70% of legal professionals carry a practising certificate.
People can opt for not to answer the complete set or particular questions, therefore response rates within firms may vary.
If you want, you can check the rough data procured in 2017 for the five groups they have employed for their analysis. This includes the 'prefer not to say' and the unacceptable responses, where individuals did not pick one of the options given by the questionnaire.
The raw data for all lawyers, reveals that for most of the questions received impressive response rates. Though the changes are not too big, the response rates were way better than in 2015 by 1% for all segments, excluding the disability and gender which were both below 1%.
The key findings for each of the diversity segments are inclusive of the comparisons of the data between legal firms in London of different size and work category. We find the firm size by the number of partners, varying from one partner to more than 50, and firms are categorized in a specific category if it has been told that they carry out 50% or more of that work type. Detailed information about the readied comparisons is set out the law firm diversity tool.
Women comprise 48% of all lawyers in legal firms and 47% of the UK manpower. For the other staff employed in law firms, women are known to cover almost three-quarters of the workforce. There has been a trifling change since 2014 in either group.
There are not so impressive but welcome signs of progress in the biggest firms, however, as the difference has come down over the past four years, with the percentage of female partners increasing gradually from 25% in 2014 to 29% in 2017.
There has been a bigger proportion of female lawyers in mid-level legal firms in London– women make up 54% of all lawyers in firms with six to nine partners and those with 10 to 50 partners. There is a lesser fraction of female lawyers in one partner firms (44%).
There has been a rise in the fraction of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) lawyers operating in law firms, now one in five lawyers. This is up 7%, from 14% in 2014 to 21% in 2017. In 2015, 11% of the UK workforce were made up of BAME.
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