More than 60 New York law firms have responded to client pressure for information on the ethnic makeup of their firms by agreeing to provide clients with statistics on the ethnic origin of their lawyers - as well as ethnic minority lawyers' billings.
The agreement comes as the UK's Black Solicitors Network announced plans to compile a diversity league table of City law firms last month (see [2005] Gazette , 28 April, 3).
US firms Shearman & Sterling and Cravath Swaine & Moore are among those that have agreed to supply a breakdown. In-house counsel at more than 20 corporations, including Coca-Cola and investment bank Merrill Lynch, have signed up to the pact.
A spokeswoman for the New York County Lawyers Association, which brokered the deal, said: 'One of the most effective ways to increase diversity is for corporate clients to focus on the specific actions, rather than the aspirations, of law firms.'
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