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In its report on law-firm diversity, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found that forty percent of legal professionals are women. The number of minorities working in the law profession has also risen. White men are still far more likely to become partners in major law firms than women and minorities, leading the study to conclude that the most important equal employment issue in large national law firms had shifted from hiring to conditions of employment, specifically promotion to partnership.