Overview
(January 27, 2022, Washington, DC) — For the fifth consecutive year, Steptoe has achieved a top score of 100 and earned the title of "Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality" in the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation's Corporate Equality Index (CEI). The 2022 CEI rates companies and top law firms on detailed criteria in three broad categories: workforce protections, inclusive benefits, and supporting an inclusive culture and corporate social responsibility.
Since 2002, the HRC Foundation has published the CEI report based largely on the annual CEI survey administered to hundreds of major global employers. The first Index in 2002 had 13 top-rated 500 largest publicly traded businesses. Companies rated in the CEI include Fortune magazine's 500 largest publicly traded businesses (Fortune 500), The American Lawyer magazine's top 200 revenue-grossing law firms (AmLaw 200), and hundreds of publicly and privately held mid-to-large-sized businesses.
Read the full report, along with law firm rankings, here.
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 majority of Steptoe's nine offices are managed by women; the majority of Steptoe’s practice groups have women as leaders; the firm’s fourteen-person elected compensation committee includes six women; and the firm's nine-person elected executive committee includes three women. 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+.