With leading international firms including most of the Magic Circle nailing their gender diversity targets to the wall, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan’s London co-managing partner Sue Prevezer QC and New York-based name partner Kathleen Sullivan spoke to Legal Business about women in law, the US litigation firm’s handle on diversity and its style of doing business.
At the 690-lawyer firm, around a quarter of practice heads are female. Overall partner numbers are lower than that – 36 of the 202 partners, or 17.8%, are women – but Quinn, which does not have specific gender diversity targets, was the first Am Law 100 firm to include a female name partner, rebranding from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges to include Sullivan four years ago. Furthermore, 15% of women at the firm fall into its ‘highly compensated’ category.
