Work life balance is important to the female attorneys who work for this law firm, and many take advantage of its alternative scheduling arrangements as they progress toward leadership roles. Comprising 20% of all partners (and two of the eight U.S. office managing partners), these women also have access to continuing legal education and management training, offered live and online through Pillsbury University. In 2011, the firm’s Retention of Women Task Force worked with leadership to improve the representation of women in the upper realms of the Intellectual Property Practice, drawing up career plans with challenging assignments and professional counseling or coaching.

Chair: James Rishwain

Chief HR Officer: Deborah Johnson

% of senior managers who are women: 36%

% of corporate executives who are women: 43%

% of the top 10% of the company’s earners who are women: 16%

% of corporate executives with profit-and-loss responsibility who are women: 15%

% of the executives running divisions with revenues of more than a billion dollars who are women: NA

% of executives who report directly to the CEO who are women: 60%

% of the members of the board of directors who are women: 31%