Most intakes are 50/50 in terms of gender balance but firms still struggle to get close to that at partner level
Data published under gender pay reporting requirements shows woman representation at other top Irish law firms also hovers at about that 30 per cent mark – .
“There’s sometimes that push early on in careers for hours and the time pressure that clients put on us that might have more of an effect [on women], but I’m not sure,” he said.“It’s important to our clients, who mostly have done an even better job than we have as law firms of diversifying their workforce. They’re demanding it, so it’s incumbent upon us both because it’s the right thing to do but also because our clients are demanding it, to make sure we’re continuing to work on it,” he said.
Mr Wasserman said that lawyers in Eversheds’s Irish operation, which has offices in Dublin and Belfast, act as the “quarterbacks” supporting US companies to do business across Europe, while there has also been an “uptick” in the past five years in Irish clients looking to break into US markets. He added that US companies continue to establish EU bases here due to stability in Ireland’s regulatory and tax frameworks.
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