Overview
(July 27, 2022, Washington, DC) – Steptoe has been named as a Diversity Lab 2022 Inclusion Blueprint Champion within the Litigation practice. Diversity Lab is an incubator for innovative ideas and solutions that boost diversity and inclusion in the legal profession. The Inclusion Blueprint, provides a tool to measure the representation of diverse lawyers and the career-enhancing inclusion activities that law firms can and should employ to ensure that historically underrepresented lawyers have fair and equal access to quality work, influential people, and other opportunities.
The Inclusion Blueprint includes four main categories for law firms to track, measure, and benchmark their diversity and inclusion efforts at both the firm leadership and practice group levels: current diversity representation based on average or above-average thresholds, year-over-year diversity representation progress, diversity representation tracking, and meaningful inclusion practices and activities. To be recognized as an Inclusion Champion, firms must achieve a score of at least 70 out of 100 across the indicators listed above.
Steptoe's Litigation practice is one of thirteen practice groups that earned the title from more than 240 law firms that participated in the Inclusion Blueprint.
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.