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Big Law’s diversity stats remain uninspiring – time to revisit the problem of social mobility

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Big Law’s diversity stats remain uninspiring – time to revisit the problem of social mobility

As we go to press on Legal Business’ third annual ESG report, the data points gathered on firms’ ethnicity and gender diversity make for disheartening reading, not least because they are entirely predictable in their lack of substantive progress from last year.

In truth, the continued lack of engagement on diversity data as part of our ESG survey among many of the top 25 Legal Business 100 and top 25 Global London firms is wearing a little thin now.

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