Clifford Chance takes steps to improve its public image

City law firms have drawn criticism for being excessively profit-driven and for lagging behind other employers in hiring and promoting women and ethnic minorities. Clifford Chance, with more than 2,800 lawyers, has been attacked as being particularly faceless and impersonal. Only 15 per cent of its partners are women and only 10 out of 233 partners in London are ethnic minorities...