December.09.2013
Orrick earned a perfect score of 100 percent for the eighth consecutive year in the 2014 Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s annual Corporate Equality Index and Best Place to Work survey. Orrick's top rating once again places it among a select group of U.S. businesses and law firms. To achieve a perfect score, firms must have fully-inclusive equal employment opportunity policies, provide equal employment benefits, demonstrate organizational LGBT competency, evidence their commitment to equality publicly and exercise responsible citizenship.
The report evaluates LGBT-related policies and practices including non-discrimination workplace protections, domestic partner benefits, transgender-inclusive health care benefits, competency programs, and public engagement with the LGBT community.
"Orrick is extremely proud to be recognized by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's CEI, the premiere national benchmark for LGBT workplace inclusion," said Lorraine McGowen, partner and chair of Orrick's Diversity and Inclusion Initiative. "Achieving a perfect 100 score for the eighth year in a row highlights our firm’s long-standing commitment to promoting the rights and interests of the LGBT community.”
A recognized leader on diversity, Orrick was one of the first law firms to offer domestic partner benefits, including fully inclusive transgender benefits.
Additionally, Orrick was named as one of Working Mother and Flex-Time Lawyers “50 Best Law Firms for Women” earlier this year. This is Orrick's fifth time on the annual list which recognizes law firms that serve as a model for their family-friendly policies and professional and business development initiatives which are designed to retain women and advance them into leadership.