Bloomberg Law
July 19, 2017, 10:06 PM UTC

Legal Industry Leads in Transgender Policies for Employees

Gayle Cinquegrani

By Gayle Cinquegrani, Bloomberg BNA

When Baker McKenzie recently announced it had adopted guidelines for addressing the needs of its transgender and gender nonconforming employees, it joined a growing group of law firms with formal policies for transgender employees.

Law firms are often among the highest-rated workplaces for LGBT equality, according to the Human Rights Campaign. HRC publishes a national benchmarking survey called the “ Corporate Equality Index .” “Of all the industries represented, law firms have the highest number of top-rated businesses,” Deena Fidas, HRC’s workplace equality program director, told Bloomberg BNA. HRC is a nonprofit that promotes ...

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