Pinsent Masons Partner Linda Jones is leading the initiative to boost female partner numbers
With female partnership on the decline in the UK, Pinsent Masons has announced an aggressive goal of 30 percent female partners by 2018. Dubbed “Project Sky”, the initiative is being led by employment partner Linda Jones with a goal of boosting flexible working and parental leave arrangements.
It’s a lofty goal in a country where female partner numbers are a problem for law firms, which have struggled to push the number above 20 percent. In 2013, just 17.6 percent of all partners in the UK legal market were woman and just 13 percent of equity partners at UK top 20 firms were women, according to The Lawyer.
