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Women, Black/African-American Associates - Expanded Tables

These tables are expanded versions of Tables 3-6 from the November 19, 2015 press release titled Women, Black/African-American Associates Lose Ground at Major U.S. Law Firms.

Table 3. Women and Minorities at Law Firms — Partners and Associates — 2015

	Partners				Associates				# of Offices
	Total #	% Women	% Minority	% Minority Women	Total #	% Women	% Minority	% Minority Women	# of Offices
Total	51,419	21.46%	7.52%	2.55%	45,619	44.68%	22.00%	11.78%	1,081
By # of Lawyers Firmwide:
100 or fewer	3,884	20.67%	5.87%	2.03%	2,054	43.14%	16.11%	8.37%	129
101-250	10,467	21.15	5.61	1.82	6,029	44.24	15.81	8.53	151
251-500	11,027	22.14	6.92	2.38	7,526	44.46	21.21	11.12	219
501-700	6,637	20.51	7.71	2.62	6,140	44.07	21.74	11.30	146
701+	19,404	21.71	9.16	3.12	23,870	45.15	24.39	13.22	436
Offices in:
Atlanta	1,236	19.58%	8.25%	2.10%	942	45.12%	17.41%	10.30%	27
Austin	356	21.07	12.64	3.93	223	41.26	21.97	9.42	17
Baltimore	305	22.30	4.59	1.97	160	47.50	14.38	8.75	5
Boston area	1,607	22.71	4.29	1.62	1,793	47.07	15.45	9.37	33
Charlotte	463	15.98	4.75	1.51	293	37.54	14.33	5.12	14
Chicago	3,269	20.71	6.61	2.32	2,497	44.77	19.38	10.29	51
Cincinnati	298	23.49	3.36	1.34	130	41.54	14.62	4.62	6
Cleveland	349	19.77	2.87	0.86	243	36.21	7.82	4.53	5
Columbus	342	22.51	4.97	1.46	155	45.81	10.97	4.52	9
Dallas	933	19.72	6.65	2.14	871	36.28	20.78	7.81	31
Denver	525	26.29	4.95	1.71	426	44.13	12.68	7.04	22
Detroit area	723	24.62	4.43	1.80	262	40.84	16.79	6.87	11
Ft. Lauderdale/W. Palm Beach	181	23.20	4.97	2.76	101	42.57	15.84	8.91	8
Grand Rapids	311	18.01	2.89	1.29	91	49.45	12.09	7.69	6
Houston	1,023	17.99	9.78	3.03	1,087	37.81	19.78	9.11	39
Indianapolis	362	22.10	3.31	1.66	143	48.25	14.69	7.69	6
Kansas City, MO	419	22.43	4.06	0.95	253	41.90	13.04	7.51	6
Los Angeles area	1,983	23.50	13.92	4.94	2,144	47.11	32.09	17.35	75
Miami	559	24.87	29.87	8.23	350	44.57	41.43	20.57	16
Milwaukee	550	24.73	3.45	1.27	279	43.37	8.24	4.30	6
Minneapolis	1,063	26.15	2.92	1.32	526	46.39	14.07	7.60	16
Nashville	221	17.19	1.36	0.45	136	47.79	12.50	8.82	5
New York City	6,332	18.35	8.18	2.87	11,371	45.03	26.31	14.32	106
Nothern NJ/Newark area	529	20.42	4.54	1.70	400	45.50	17.50	9.25	10
Northern Virginia	160	13.75	7.50	1.88	133	42.11	20.30	8.27	8
Orange Co., CA	583	16.47	13.21	3.77	593	37.44	26.64	11.47	22
Philadelphia	751	19.04	3.99	1.33	718	47.21	13.93	7.94	12
Phoenix	581	23.06	5.85	1.38	285	39.30	16.49	9.82	13
Pittsburgh	556	20.68	2.88	0.90	400	47.75	11.75	7.00	7
Portland, OR area	369	24.12	4.88	2.17	176	45.45	12.50	5.11	11
Raleigh/Durham	192	20.31	3.65	2.08	79	39.24	7.59	2.53	8
Salt Lake City	234	11.54	3.85	0.85	130	24.62	4.62	0.00	8
San Diego	267	20.97	13.11	2.25	314	42.04	26.11	10.19	15
San Francisco	1,245	24.74	13.17	4.34	1,454	50.89	28.89	16.85	48
San Jose area	790	20.25	16.08	4.56	1,333	43.59	38.86	19.73	39
Seattle area	920	26.09	8.91	3.37	498	45.58	19.48	10.64	25
St. Louis	744	22.04	3.90	1.34	376	44.41	12.50	5.85	8
Tampa	235	18.30	5.96	1.70	101	41.58	8.91	4.95	10
Washington, D.C.	4,780	21.65	8.47	3.18	4,971	45.16	22.37	12.47	101
Wilmington	202	22.77	4.95	1.49	216	39.35	10.19	5.56	10
States:
Other areas in California	204	28.92%	10.78%	4.41%	139	47.48%	18.71%	5.04%	9
Other areas in Connecticut	259	24.71	4.63	2.70	186	50.00	18.28	12.37	8
Other areas in Florida	442	23.53	4.75	0.90	188	38.83	13.30	5.85	15
Kentucky	362	22.93	1.66	0.55	154	43.51	11.04	5.19	6
Other areas in New Jersey	216	20.37	6.94	2.78	125	40.80	17.60	8.00	7
Other areas in New York State	759	21.34	3.69	0.66	470	45.96	10.85	5.53	11
Other areas in Texas	199	19.60	10.55	2.01	99	52.53	12.12	7.07	6

Source: 2015-2016 NALP Directory of Legal Employers.
Some city information includes one or more offices in adjacent suburbs. Orange County includes offices in Costa Mesa, Irvine, and Newport Beach. The San Jose area includes offices in Menlo Park, Mountain View, Palo Alto and E. Palo Alto, Redwood Shores/Redwood City, San Jose, and Sunnyvale. The Los Angeles area includes offices in Santa Monica and Long Beach. The Northern New Jersey/Newark area includes offices in Newark, Roseland, Florham Park, Hackensack, Morristown, and Woodbridge. Northern Virginia includes offices in Falls Church, McLean/Tyson's Corner, and Reston. State figures exclude cities reported separately. For multi-office firms that reported only firmwide figures, the information was attributed to the reporting city if at least 60% of the firms lawyers are in that city.

Table 4. Women and Minorities at Law Firms — Total Lawyers and Summer Associates — 2015

	Total Lawyers					Summer Associates
	Total #	% Women	% Minority	% Minority Women	# of Offices	Total #	% Women	% Minority	% Minority Women
Total	113,031	33.38%	13.97%	6.81%	1,081	6,509	47.78%	31.16%	16.99%
By # of Lawyers Firmwide:
100 or fewer	6,783	28.93%	9.01%	4.10%	129	277	43.32%	27.80%	10.83%
101-250	18,872	30.02	9.11	4.20	151	704	50.57	27.98	16.19
251-500	21,822	32.44	12.39	5.84	219	1,035	48.89	28.02	14.98
501-700	15,021	33.14	13.89	6.67	146	827	49.33	32.53	18.26
701+	50,533	35.72	17.15	8.60	436	3,666	46.92	32.60	17.89
Offices in:
Atlanta	2,598	32.68%	12.28%	5.93%	27	117	49.57%	24.79%	11.11%
Austin	662	29.76	15.56	6.19	17	42	52.38	21.43	7.14
Baltimore	581	34.08	7.75	4.48	5	—	—	—	—
Boston area	3,862	36.66	10.12	5.67	33	241	52.28	26.14	16.18
Charlotte	861	26.71	8.25	3.14	14	41	41.46	29.27	17.07
Chicago	6,478	32.29	11.75	5.62	51	362	45.86	28.73	14.36
Cincinnati	472	30.72	6.78	2.54	6	20	45.00	30.00	10.00
Cleveland	727	29.85	4.68	2.34	5	—	—	—	—
Columbus	627	29.98	6.22	2.39	9	28	28.57	28.57	3.57
Dallas	2,054	29.07	13.44	5.01	31	158	50.63	24.68	15.19
Denver	1,173	36.06	8.10	4.18	22	52	50.00	32.69	17.31
Detroit area	1,149	29.07	7.66	3.22	11	41	48.78	29.27	24.39
Ft. Lauderdale/W. Palm Beach	322	33.23	9.32	5.59	8	—	—	—	—
Grand Rapids	547	24.13	4.20	2.38	6	21	47.62	33.33	14.29
Houston	2,383	30.09	14.94	6.13	39	292	46.92	28.42	14.04
Indianapolis	581	31.33	6.88	3.61	6	24	62.50	25.00	20.83
Kansas City, MO	838	33.65	6.92	3.34	6	37	62.16	24.32	10.81
Los Angeles area	4,740	36.79	23.14	11.58	75	290	55.52	34.48	21.03
Miami	1,002	33.23	33.73	13.07	16	50	46.00	46.00	28.00
Milwaukee	944	30.83	4.98	2.12	6	44	47.73	31.82	11.36
Minneapolis	1,787	33.63	6.44	3.47	16	74	45.95	40.54	18.92
Nashville	391	29.92	5.12	3.32	5	—	—	—	—
New York City	20,399	35.77	19.20	9.90	106	1,980	46.21	35.30	19.60
Nothern NJ/Newark area	1,138	32.51	9.84	4.66	10	47	34.04	38.30	17.02
Northern Virginia	336	28.27	12.80	4.76	8	18	38.89	33.33	16.67
Orange Co., CA	1,267	27.94	19.65	7.73	22	48	50.00	29.17	16.67
Philadelphia	1,742	33.87	8.96	4.59	12	61	45.90	44.26	21.31
Phoenix	964	28.73	9.34	4.25	13	36	44.44	8.33	2.78
Pittsburgh	1,145	32.14	6.99	3.49	7	36	36.11	33.33	11.11
Portland, OR area	604	32.78	7.28	3.15	11	15	33.33	60.00	20.00
Raleigh/Durham	298	27.18	5.03	2.01	8	—	—	—	—
Salt Lake City	414	18.36	4.11	0.48	8	—	—	—	—
San Diego	669	34.98	19.58	7.03	15	45	53.33	42.22	24.44
San Francisco	3,121	39.44	20.70	10.83	48	186	55.91	36.56	21.51
San Jose area	2,338	36.18	29.90	13.94	39	220	45.00	40.45	21.82
Seattle area	1,604	33.54	12.66	6.11	25	50	56.00	34.00	18.00
St. Louis	1,307	30.68	6.43	2.83	8	52	53.85	21.15	15.38
Tampa	370	26.22	7.30	3.51	10	12	58.33	25.00	8.33
Washington, D.C.	11,878	34.43	15.26	7.77	101	742	46.09	28.44	14.82
Wilmington	446	31.39	7.40	3.36	10	53	33.96	18.87	7.55
States:
Other areas in California	428	38.32%	14.02%	5.37%	9	13	46.15%	30.77%	30.77&
Other areas in Connecticut	514	35.99	9.92	6.42	8	20	50.00	35.00	10.00
Other areas in Florida	698	29.23	7.02	2.44	15	16	56.25	6.25	6.25
Kentucky	615	29.43	4.07	1.63	6	35	54.29	14.29	5.71
Other areas in New Jersey	380	29.47	10.00	4.47	7	11	54.55	45.45	27.27
Other areas in New York State	1,422	30.52	5.98	2.39	11	41	60.98	36.59	26.83
Other areas in Texas	333	33.03	10.81	3.90	6	—	—	—	—

Table 5. Partner Demographics at Law Firms — 2015

	Partners by Race or Ethnicity			All Partners						# of Offices
	Partners by Race or Ethnicity			Asian		Black/African American		Hispanic
	Total #	% Minority	% Minority Women	Total %	% Women	Total %	% Women	Total %	% Women
Total	51,419	7.52%	2.55%	2.89%	1.07%	1.77%	0.64%	2.19%	0.63%	1,081
By Size of Firm:
100 or fewer lawyers	3,884	5.87%	2.03%	2.75%	1.08%	0.82%	0.18%	1.03%	0.36%	129
101-250 lawyers	10,467	5.61	1.82	1.97	0.72	1.38	0.49	1.71	0.46	151
251-500 lawyers	11,027	6.92	2.38	2.32	0.92	1.86	0.71	2.09	0.58	219
501-700 lawyers	6,637	7.71	2.62	2.65	0.95	2.06	0.74	2.38	0.69	146
701+ lawyers	19,404	9.16	3.12	3.83	1.38	2.03	0.74	2.66	0.78	436
Offices in:
Atlanta	1,236	8.25%	2.10%	2.18%	0.32%	4.21%	1.05%	1.13%	0.49%	27
Austin	356	12.64	3.93	1.12	0.00	3.65	1.40	7.02	2.25	17
Baltimore	305	4.59	1.97	0.98	0.98	2.30	0.66	0.66	0.33	5
Boston area	1,607	4.29	1.62	1.99	0.93	1.00	0.25	1.06	0.25	33
Charlotte	463	4.75	1.51	0.65	0.22	2.16	1.08	1.51	0.22	14
Chicago	3,269	6.61	2.32	2.94	1.19	1.80	0.70	1.47	0.31	51
Cincinnati	298	3.36	1.34	0.67	0.00	0.67	0.00	1.34	1.34	6
Cleveland	349	2.87	0.86	1.15	0.29	0.86	0.57	0.57	0.00	5
Columbus	342	4.97	1.46	0.88	0.29	3.22	1.17	0.58	0.00	9
Dallas	933	6.65	2.14	1.39	0.21	1.50	0.54	2.57	1.07	31
Denver	525	4.95	1.71	1.71	0.57	0.38	0.00	2.10	0.38	22
Detroit area	723	4.43	1.80	0.83	0.28	2.90	1.38	0.55	0.00	11
Ft. Lauderdale/W. Palm Beach	181	4.97	2.76	0.00	0.00	2.21	1.66	2.76	1.10	8
Grand Rapids	311	2.89	1.29	0.96	0.64	0.64	0.32	1.29	0.32	6
Houston	1,023	9.78	3.03	2.25	0.88	2.54	0.88	3.81	0.98	39
Indianapolis	362	3.31	1.66	0.83	0.55	1.38	0.28	0.55	0.28	6
Kansas City	419	4.06	0.95	0.95	0.48	1.91	0.00	0.95	0.24	6
Los Angeles area	1,983	13.92	4.94	7.26	3.23	1.82	0.45	3.63	1.11	75
Miami	559	29.87	8.23	0.36	0.00	2.86	1.25	26.12	6.62	16
Milwaukee	550	3.45	1.27	0.73	0.55	0.73	0.00	1.45	0.55	6
Minneapolis	1,063	2.92	1.32	1.03	0.75	0.38	0.09	0.75	0.09	16
Nashville	221	1.36	0.45	0.45	0.00	0.45	0.45	0.45	0.00	5
New York City	6,332	8.18	2.87	3.73	1.39	1.42	0.54	2.46	0.69	106
Northern NJ/Newark area	529	4.54	1.70	1.32	0.76	0.95	0.38	1.51	0.38	10
Northern Virginia	160	7.50	1.88	4.38	0.63	1.88	1.25	0.63	0.00	8
Orange Co., CA	583	13.21	3.77	7.72	2.74	0.69	0.00	3.26	0.51	22
Philadelphia	751	3.99	1.33	1.20	0.40	1.46	0.53	0.27	0.00	12
Phoenix	581	5.85	1.38	1.38	0.17	0.34	0.17	2.07	0.52	13
Pittsburgh	556	2.88	0.90	1.26	0.54	0.36	0.00	0.90	0.36	7
Portland, OR area	369	4.88	2.17	1.90	0.81	0.81	0.54	1.08	0.27	11
Raleigh/Durham	192	3.65	2.08	1.04	0.52	2.08	1.04	0.00	0.00	8
Salt Lake City	234	3.85	0.85	0.85	0.00	0.00	0.00	2.14	0.85	8
San Diego	267	13.11	2.25	4.87	1.12	0.00	0.00	5.99	1.12	15
San Francisco	1,245	13.17	4.34	7.79	2.65	2.41	0.48	2.09	0.88	48
San Jose area	790	16.08	4.56	11.77	3.54	0.76	0.25	3.04	0.76	39
Seattle area	920	8.91	3.37	4.35	1.85	1.74	0.54	1.30	0.43	25
St. Louis	744	3.90	1.34	0.54	0.13	2.15	0.54	0.81	0.54	8
Tampa	235	5.96	1.70	0.43	0.00	0.85	0.43	4.68	1.28	10
Washington, D.C.	4,780	8.47	3.18	3.60	1.19	2.47	1.11	1.80	0.59	101
Wilmington	202	4.95	1.49	1.49	0.50	1.98	0.99	0.99	0.00	10

Source: 2015-2016 NALP Directory of Legal Employers.
The few Native American, Native Hawaiian and multi-racial lawyers reported are included in the overall minority percentages but are not reported separately. Some city information includes one or more offices in adjacent suburbs. Orange County includes offices in Costa Mesa, Irvine, and Newport Beach. The San Jose area includes offices in Menlo Park, Mountain View, Palo Alto and E. Palo Alto, Redwood Shores/Redwood City, San Jose, and Sunnyvale. The Los Angeles area includes offices in and Santa Monica. The Northern New Jersey/Newark area includes offices in Newark, Short Hills Roseland, Florham Park, Hackensack, Morristown, and Woodbridge. Northern Virginia includes offices in Falls Church, McLean/Tysons Corner, Reston, and Alexandria. The few Native American, Native Hawaiian and multi-racial lawyers reported are included in the overall minority. percentages but are not reported separately. For multi-office firms that reported only firmwide figures, the information was attributed to the reporting city if at least 60% of the firms lawyers are in that city.

Table 6. Associate Demographics at Law Firms — 2015

	Associates by Race or Ethnicity									# of Offices
	All Associates			Asian		Black/African American		Hispanic
	Total #	% Minority	% Minority Women	Total %	% Women	Total %	% Women	Total %	% Women
Total	45,619	22.00%	11.78%	10.93%	6.00%	3.95%	2.25%	4.28%	2.03%	1,081
By Size of Firm:
100 or fewer lawyers	2,054	16.11%	8.37%	9.25%	4.72%	2.63%	1.07%	2.39%	1.56%	129
101-250 lawyers	6,029	15.81	8.53	7.38	4.10	3.23	1.84	3.38	1.59	151
251-500 lawyers	7,526	21.21	11.12	9.33	5.22	4.24	2.47	4.68	2.06	219
501-700 lawyers	6,140	21.74	11.30	9.74	5.07	4.35	2.44	4.07	1.92	146
701+ lawyers	23,870	24.39	13.22	12.79	7.07	4.05	2.33	4.60	2.20	436
Offices in:
Atlanta	942	17.41%	10.30%	7.54%	3.50%	6.69%	4.67%	1.70%	1.27%	27
Austin	223	21.97	9.42	8.07	2.69	1.35	0.45	8.07	3.14	17
Baltimore	160	14.38	8.75	3.13	3.13	7.50	3.75	1.88	0.63	5
Boston area	1,793	15.45	9.37	8.64	5.47	2.45	1.45	2.73	1.34	33
Charlotte	293	14.33	5.12	4.44	1.71	5.12	2.73	2.73	0.34	14
Chicago	2,497	19.38	10.29	8.65	4.65	4.29	1.92	4.00	2.28	51
Cincinnati	130	14.62	4.62	6.15	2.31	3.85	0.77	2.31	1.54	6
Cleveland	243	7.82	4.53	4.12	2.88	2.88	1.23	0.82	0.41	5
Columbus	155	10.97	4.52	3.23	0.65	3.87	1.29	1.29	0.65	9
Dallas	871	20.78	7.81	7.58	1.84	4.02	1.95	5.63	2.18	31
Denver	426	12.68	7.04	3.99	3.29	2.58	0.70	4.46	2.11	22
Detroit area	262	16.79	6.87	4.58	1.15	7.63	3.05	1.15	0.76	11
Ft. Lauderdale/W. Palm Beach	101	15.84	8.91	3.96	1.98	2.97	2.97	8.91	3.96	8
Grand Rapids	91	12.09	7.69	3.30	2.20	4.40	2.20	3.30	2.20	6
Houston	1,087	19.78	9.11	8.00	3.50	3.68	1.93	5.43	2.58	39
Indianapolis	143	14.69	7.69	3.50	2.10	6.29	4.20	3.50	1.40	6
Kansas City	253	13.04	7.51	2.77	1.19	3.95	2.37	3.56	1.98	6
Los Angeles area	2,144	32.09	17.35	18.42	10.54	2.89	1.54	6.20	3.17	75
Miami	350	41.43	20.57	2.00	1.43	5.14	1.43	30.86	16.29	16
Milwaukee	279	8.24	4.30	2.87	1.43	1.79	0.72	2.87	1.43	6
Minneapolis	526	14.07	7.60	5.70	2.85	3.42	1.33	1.71	1.52	16
Nashville	136	12.50	8.82	2.21	2.21	8.09	4.41	0.74	0.74	5
New York City	11,371	26.31	14.32	14.51	8.27	3.98	2.33	5.08	2.18	106
Northern NJ/Newark area	400	17.50	9.25	7.50	3.75	2.00	1.50	5.50	2.75	10
Northern Virginia	133	20.30	8.27	11.28	3.01	2.26	0.75	4.51	3.01	8
Orange Co., CA	593	26.64	11.47	17.88	8.60	1.18	0.84	4.05	1.01	22
Philadelphia	718	13.93	7.94	5.85	3.48	4.46	2.79	2.37	0.97	12
Phoenix	285	16.49	9.82	5.96	3.86	0.70	0.35	5.96	3.51	13
Pittsburgh	400	11.75	7.00	5.00	2.75	3.50	2.25	2.50	1.75	7
Portland, OR area	176	12.50	5.11	5.68	3.41	1.14	0.57	1.14	0.00	11
Raleigh/Durham	79	7.59	2.53	3.80	1.27	2.53	1.27	1.27	0.00	8
Salt Lake City	130	4.62	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	1.54	0.00	8
San Diego	314	26.11	10.19	14.01	5.10	1.27	0.96	4.78	1.59	15
San Francisco	1,454	28.89	16.85	17.95	11.55	1.86	0.76	5.09	2.34	48
San Jose area	1,333	38.86	19.73	28.58	14.63	2.70	1.28	4.20	1.95	39
Seattle area	498	19.48	10.64	10.24	5.82	2.81	1.41	2.81	1.61	25
St. Louis	376	12.50	5.85	3.72	2.13	5.59	2.93	1.86	0.80	8
Tampa	101	8.91	4.95	1.98	0.99	0.99	0.99	4.95	1.98	10
Washington, D.C.	4,971	22.37	12.47	10.54	5.71	5.39	3.34	3.58	1.75	101
Wilmington	216	10.19	5.56	4.17	2.78	2.78	1.85	0.93	0.93	10

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