In “Big Law & Pay Equity: What Your Peers Are Saying,” Sanford Heisler Sharp LLP partners Alexandra Harwin and Melinda Koster, leaders of the firm’s discrimination and harassment practice, examine lessons from a proliferation of state legislation and court rulings on pay equity and offer concrete steps that all employers, including law firms, can take to close the gender gap in compensation and build a more equitable workforce.
Employers nationwide “should tread carefully” when it comes to relying on salary history to set pay, Harwin and Koster say. And law firms, when hiring lateral partners or associates, should set pay based on the job duties of the position, rather than the attorney’s prior compensation package.
Next we hear from Lori Andrus, partner at Andrus Anderson LLP in San Francisco, who says law firm diversity training, mentoring programs, and aggressive recruitment efforts still can’t seem to fix the inequity in pay between men and women attorneys. What does work, she says, is litigation.
Andrus, who is...
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