Debevoise maintains strong record on women in partnership

Debevoise & Plimpton has announced the promotion of three lawyers to the partnership, two of whom are women. Looking back over the past four years, the firm’s recod on women partners is something to be celebrated: nine of the 15 partners Debevoise made from 2008 to 2011 are women. And since Debevoise is a one-tier firm, they are all equity partners. Debevoise partner Mary Beth Hogan says that the firm has had a part-time policy for 40 years, and that the firm's policy of keeping part-timers on partnership track was critical to her career success: "I was part-time for five years from 1997, and I made partner in 1999, when my oldest child was 6." The firm formalized part-time in 1987, and made it explicit that part-timers are eligible for partnership, without being put back for part-time, in 1995.

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