In Sedgwick Gender Pay Suit, a Case for Transparency

Traci Ribeiro became the latest in a long line of women lawyers to take BigLaw to task over gender inequities when she sued Sedgwick last week, where she is a non-equity partner. Her allegations are striking, but what’s noticeably absent from the suit may be what matters most: the details of her salary.

Ribeiro alleges she was repeatedly denied an equity partnership despite being the firm’s third highest revenue-generator in 2015. That year, the firm instead promoted a man who brought in less than 10 percent of Ribeiro’s revenues, according to her complaint, which doesn’t reveal the dollar-amount either lawyer made.

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