The Social Mobility Index is an important bench-marking initiative that ranks Britain’s employers for the first time on the actions they are taking to ensure they are open to accessing and progressing talent from all backgrounds and it showcases progress towards improving social mobility.
The aim of the Index is to encourage firms to share their initiatives and progress in becoming more inclusive employers and to reveal which sectors and companies are taking the issue of social mobility most seriously.
The 2020 Index highlighted that some sectors of the economy – law, public sector and financial services – as a whole have made some positive strides to improve social mobility in the workplace, but overall progress is too slow.
Top 75 employers
Law Firms featured in the Top 75 Employers included:
- 04 Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
- 05 Browne Jacobson
- 07 Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
- 10 Baker McKenzie
- 11 Linklaters LLP
- 19 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
- 20 Hogan Lovells International LLP
- 24 Brodies LLP
- 25 Slaughter and May
- 28 Allen & Overy
- 30 Pinsent Masons
- 35 RPC LLP
- 38 Shoosmiths
- 39 Burges Salmon LLP
- 40 DWF
- 41 CMS
- 46 Squire Patton Boggs
- 51 Freeths LLP
- 52 Shepherd and Wedderburn
- 57 Simmons & Simmons LLP
- 59 Lewis Silkin LLP
- 66 Mayer Brown International LLP
- 67 Macfarlanes LLP
- 68 TLT LLP
- 72 Charles Russell Speechlys LLP
The key findings report for the 2020 Index is available to read here.
