Overview
(July 20, 2022, Washington, DC) — For the fifth consecutive year, Steptoe has been named one of the “Best Places to Work” for disability inclusion by the Disability Equality Index® (DEI), receiving a high score of 90%.
The DEI was launched in 2015 by Disability:IN and The American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) and is acknowledged today as the most comprehensive benchmarking tool for the Fortune 1000 and Am Law 200 to measure disability workplace inclusion against competitors. Now in its eighth year, the DEI exists to help businesses make a positive impact on the unemployment/underemployment of people with disabilities. It is a tool that helps companies build a roadmap of measurable, tangible actions that they can take to achieve disability inclusion and equality.
In 2022, 415 corporations, including 69 Fortune 100, 188 Fortune 500, and 227 Fortune
1000 used the DEI to benchmark their disability inclusion efforts. The 2022 DEI measured: culture & leadership, enterprise-wide access, employment practices, and community engagement among other criteria.
For more information, please visit the Disability Equality Index website.
About Steptoe
In more than 100 years of practice, Steptoe has earned an international reputation for vigorous representation of clients before governmental agencies, successful advocacy in litigation and arbitration, and creative and practical advice in structuring business transactions. Steptoe has more than 500 lawyers and other professional staff across offices in Beijing, Brussels, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Washington. For more information, visit www.steptoe.com.
The diversity of the firm is a critical factor in its success. The firm's Chair is a woman; the majority of Steptoe's nine offices are managed by women; the majority of Steptoe's practice groups have women as leaders; and the firm's twelve-person elected compensation committee is headed by a woman and includes five women as members. The firm's eight-person professional business services leadership is equally diverse, with half the c-suite made up of women, including three women of color, and other leaders who openly identify as LGBTQ+.