Gender
We are a leader for women, being the first global law firm to publish goals for women partners and women in management and to have a global agile working policy that is widely available.
Delivering on our commitments to diversity and inclusion is one of the five key strategic priorities of the firm, on a par with putting clients at the center of everything we do and enhancing profitability. We are actively creating an inclusive workplace where each of our people can thrive as their authentic self, by mitigating unconscious bias and actively creating opportunities for and supporting our colleagues. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion makes us a better law firm and helps us to deliver the best experience for our clients, attract the best talent, and drive innovation.
Our global team of ten diversity professionals works together with seven diversity partners around the globe to deliver on these commitments using a strategy focused on:
Accountability
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Recruitment & retention
Culture
Clients
We hold ourselves accountable with ambitious, attainable metrics by identifying external and internal goals to guide our progress, and by educating and inspiring all of our people to make meaningful investments in their colleagues.
Institutional change is our focus as we implement work allocation and other processes to ensure work and pitch opportunities are equally allocated to underrepresented lawyers.
We want the best and brightest talent at all levels, and will take a holistic approach to get there from briefing our recruiters on our expectations for diversity to providing billable credit hours for D&I activities to providing mentoring and sponsorship.
Individuals are the bedrock of our culture. We make available training on bias and inclusive leadership and empower allyship to ensure everyone feels they belong and can contribute as their authentic selves.
Providing excellent client service is what we do at Hogan Lovells. We enhance that service through partnering with our clients on mutually beneficial D&I initiatives and providing consulting services to strengthen their D&I initiatives.
We prioritize cultivating an inclusive environment for all of our people. While gender, race/ethnicity, LGBTQ+ and disability are the four diversity strands that comprise our efforts globally, our regional initiatives support additional diversity strands including age and social mobility.
We are a leader for women, being the first global law firm to publish goals for women partners and women in management and to have a global agile working policy that is widely available.
Our aim is to reflect our clients and communities. We have published a goal of 15% racial/ethnic minority partners by 2025, and established initiatives to support our racial/ethnic minority colleagues throughout the employee lifecycle.
We are deeply committed to LGBTQ+ inclusion globally as advocates and innovators. We aim high, with a published goal of 4% LGBTQ+ partners by 2025, with robust programs implemented to help us get there.
Building on our longstanding commitment to disability inclusion, we have elevated disability as a global priority diversity focus. We are proud signatories to The Valuable 500 making commitments to ability inclusion.
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Washington, D.C., 14 September 2021 – Global law firm Hogan Lovells is pleased to announce it has achieved Mansfield Rule 4.0 Certification Plus status for 2021, demonstrating the firm’s ability to deliver on its commitments to diversity and inclusion.
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Beijing, 14 September 2021 – Global law firm Hogan Lovells is pleased to announce that Intel D&I China Outside Counsel Program 2021 has recognized the firm for its Excellency Award. The award is given based on outstanding and sustained contributions to...
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Washington, D.C.,/London, 19 July 2021 – Global law firm Hogan Lovells has been awarded Gold Standard Certification in the U.S. and in the UK by the Women in Law Empowerment Forum (WILEF), one of only four firms to receive the accolade across both regions and...
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Washington D.C./London, 7 July 2021 – Global law firm Hogan Lovells is pleased to announce the firm is participating in Mansfield Certification 5.0 for 2021, and has also joined Mansfield’s expanding program for a UK pilot with more than 10 leading firms.
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In 2019, Hogan Lovells ran a Self-ID campaign to encourage our people to share their diversity data in our new online self-service people system.
Awards and Rankings
Hogan Lovells has today been ranked as one of the Top 75 employers in the Social Mobility Employer Index 2019 for the third consecutive year.
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Hogan Lovells has today been ranked as one of the UK's Top 30 family-friendly employers by work-life balance charity, Working Families.
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We aim to be a firm where our people and clients benefit from a thriving workplace culture.
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Washington, D.C., 3 September 2019 – International law firm Hogan Lovells is pleased to announce that one year after committing to the Mansfield Rule 2.0, the firm has achieved "Mansfield Certification Plus" for 2019.
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Washington, D.C., 16 July 2019 – For the eighth consecutive year, Hogan Lovells has been named one of the "Best Law Firms for Women" by Working Mother.
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Washington D.C. and London, 18 June 2019 – Hogan Lovells announced today the Women in Law Empowerment Forum (WILEF) has awarded the firm with its Gold Standard in the U.S. for the seventh year in succession. The firm also received the Gold Standard in the UK...
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Washington D.C., 7 June 2019 – Global law firm Hogan Lovells is pleased to announce that the firm received the inaugural award for “The Most Inclusive Firm for Minority Lawyers” at Chambers Diversity & Inclusion Awards: USA 2019. The award...
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For the eighth consecutive year, The Times has recognised Hogan Lovells as one of the UK’s Top 50 Employers for Women.
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Washington, D.C., 16 March 2019 – Hogan Lovells is pleased to announce that the firm has been selected as a Yale Law Women's Top Ten Firm for Gender Equity for 2019.
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Gender pay reporting legislation requires UK employers with 250 or more employees to publish statutory calculations every year showing the pay gap between their male and female employees. Hogan Lovells 2018 gender pay gap data refers to all employees on the payroll of...
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London, 29 March 2019 - Hogan Lovells is proud to be a founding partner of The Goldman Sachs Legal Insight Programme, a collaboration between top firms in various sectors, working together to broaden access to careers in the City of London for LGBT+ talent.
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London, 28 March 2019 – The Reignite Academy, which began as a pilot last year to help “career break” lawyers return to City careers, gathers momentum as nine more firms become members.
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On 21 March 2019, at the 2019 Asia Legal Awards ceremony held in Hong Kong, Hogan Lovells received two awards:
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Diverse teams deliver better results for clients. We know this both instinctively and through the day-to-day experience we have working with each other and our clients. The breadth of perspective, thinking, and difference of viewpoints that you get with a diverse team...
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Coming in at no. 34, Hogan Lovells ranks in the Stonewall Top 100 Employers for the 9th consecutive year. The recognition reflects the firm's continued commitment to greater inclusivity in the workplace for people of all gender and sexual orientations.
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Hogan Lovells' work on trans inclusion has been named Diversity Initiative of the Year at the UK Diversity Legal Awards. The award recognises an initiative that has made a tangible difference in creating a more diverse and inclusive workplace, with the intention of...
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New York, 9 November 2017 – Global law firm Hogan Lovells has been recognized by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) with a 100 percent rating in its 2018 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), making it nine years in a row that the firm has achieved such recognition. It...
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A coalition of senior real estate business leaders, including Chair of Hogan Lovells Nicholas Cheffings, have joined forces to back an industry-wide initiative, committing publicly to promote an inclusive, gender balanced workforce in their organisations.
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London, 1 November 2017 – Hogan Lovells has been named by Business in the Community (BitC) as one of the UK's Best Employers for Race in a new listing published today.
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Hogan Lovells partners John Basnage and Allan Wardrop have been ranked in the FT OUTstanding lists for top LGBT+ and ally executives.
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London, 14 July 2017 – Hogan Lovells has been awarded the National Equality Standard (NES), a rigorous benchmark developed for business by business, recognising the work the firm has done to address issues of equality, diversity and inclusion in the UK.
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Partners Leah Dunlop and Sabrina Borocci have been included in Legalcommunity's 2017 list of the top 30 women lawyers in Italy.
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London, 21 June 2017 – Hogan Lovells has been ranked 26th in the first-ever Top 50 Social Mobility Employer Index, a joint initiative between the Social Mobility Foundation and the Social Mobility Commission, in partnership with The City of London Corporation.
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Hogan Lovells today launches a new global LGBT and allies network, Pride+, aimed at enhancing support for and commitment to LGBT+ individuals. Today's launch also marks support of the International Day Against Homophobia, Bi-phobia, and Transphobia.
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LOS ANGELES and WASHINGTON, 7 March 2017 – Hogan Lovells is proud to announce that two of its lawyers have been chosen to participate in the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD), an organization of corporate chief legal officers and law firm managing...
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Hogan Lovells has made the top 20 of the Stonewall Top 100 Employers 2017 Workplace Equality Index - published today, 19 January - for the first time. Coming in at no. 17, this is the seventh consecutive year that Hogan Lovells has made the Top 100 list, and the fifth...