The New York City Bar Association released the results of a confidential survey, revealing that many of the city’s largest law firms have done very little to promote and hire both women and minorities. The NYC Bar required firms with 51-500+ lawyers to complete the survey, 70% of whom responded. Only 19% of these firm’s partners are female, and less than 3% are female minorities. Many of the practices have devoted resources and hired diversity managers to aid in their recruiting processes. This was the first year that the NYC Bar Association broke down the survey by both gender and ethnicity, making it the most detailed thus far.
See "Leading New York Law Firms Lag in Including Women and Minorities", Elizabeth Olson, New York Times, October 17, 2016