April 25, 2019

More Than 60 Firms Sign Houston Bar Gender Fairness Pledge

Law360 (April 23, 2019, 4:40 PM EDT) — More than 60 law firms have signed on to the Houston Bar Association’s Gender Fairness Commitment, making a pledge to increase the number of female partners and firm leaders by next year.

The firms that have pledged support range from small boutiques like Copeland & Rice LLP to multinational firms like Norton Rose Fulbright and Vinson & Elkins LLP. Signing the document isn’t just a gesture, said HBA president Warren Harris. The pledge asks firms to demonstrate that they have increased the number of female partners and leaders after they sign on.

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Inspired by what they heard from members of the San Francisco Bar Association, leaders of the HBA announced in 2003 that they wanted to form a similar gender parity-focused group and launched the Gender Fairness Task Force. That group became a standing committee of the HBA in 2006 and circulated its first pledge that year.

The following law firms have signed the pledge: Baker Botts LLP, Baker Donelson, BakerHostetler LLP, Baker McKenzie, Berg & Androphy, Blank Rome LLP, Bracewell LLP, Caldwell Boudreaux Lefler PLLC, Cersonsky Rosen & Garcia PC, Copeland & Rice LLP, Cozen O’Connor, Daniels & Tredennick LLP, Eversheds Sutherland LLP, Fibich Leebron Copeland & Briggs, Fletcher Yoder PC, Fogler Brar Ford O’Neil and Gray LLP, Foley Gardere, Greenberg Traurig LLP, Harris County Attorney’s Office, Haynes and Boone LLP, Hendershot Cannon & Hisey PC, Hogan Lovells LLP, Holmes Diggs & Sadler, Horne Rota Moos LLP, Hughes Watters Askanase LLP, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, Husch Blackwell, Jackson Walker LLP, Jenkins & Kamin LLP, Johnson Trent & Taylor LLP, Kane Russell Coleman & Logan PC, LeClairRyan, Liskow & Lewis APLC, Littler Mendelson PC, Locke Lord LLP, Madan Law PLLC, Mayer Brown LLP, McDowell Hetherington LLP, MehaffyWeber PC, Monty & Ramirez LLP, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr PC, Nistico Crouch & Kessler PC, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Paul Hastings, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittmann LLP, Porter Hedges LLP, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, Rapp & Krock PC, Reed Smith LLP, Roberts Markel Weinberg Butler Hailey PC, Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP, Thompson & Horton LLP, Thompson & Knight LLP, Vinson & Elkins LLP, Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease LLP, White & Case LLP, Winstead PC, Winston & Strawn LLP, Womble Bond Dickinson LLP.

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