Awards & Recognition

Paul, Weiss has been widely recognized for its market-leading diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. Below are select awards and recognitions:

• In the American Lawyer's Diversity Scorecard, our 2024 composite score places us within the top 25% of the "Most Diverse Law Firms," with noted distinction for racial/ethnic diversity and LGBTQ+ diversity, and marks our leading presence in this category for 22 consecutive years, including two number-one rankings.
• Recognized as a 2024 "Best Law Firm for Women and Diversity" by Seramount.
• Ranked third among large law firms in the 2024 Law360 Pulse's Diversity Snapshot Report.

• Awarded Gold Standard Certification by the Women in Law Empowerment Forum (WILEF) annually since 2015 for our advancement of women lawyers. In 2023, Paul, Weiss was one of only 16 firms to have met all six of WILEF's criteria for the certification.
• In 2024, listed in Bloomberg Law’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Framework. The annual framework recognizes select firms for their distinguished and transparent performance against six key criteria: demographics, leadership and talent pipeline, recruitment and retention, business innovation and strategy, marketing, and diversity and inclusion in the community.
• Recognized by the Diversity & Flexibility Alliance as a firm that is “Tipping the Scales” towards gender parity in the legal industry by promoting at least 50% women to its 2024 partner class, per the Alliance’s recently published 2024 New Partner Report on the gender breakdown of law firm partner promotions.

• In 2024, received Mansfield 7.0 Certification, indicating successful participation in a rigorous, year-long certification program that aims to boost and sustain diversity in law firm leadership.
• In 2023, recognized as an "Industry Leader" by the Lawyers of Color Diversity Awards.
• Ranked seventh among large law firms in the 2023 Law360 Pulse's Glass Ceiling Report: Women in Law.

• In 2021, received National Asian Pacific American Bar Association's Law Firm Diversity Award for actively, affirmatively and consistently recruiting, retaining and promoting Asian American Pacific Islander lawyers to equity partnership and firm leadership.
• In 2021, ranked as one of the top five firms globally for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) diversity by Legal Business in their Global 100 report, and the only firm in the world to have 20% BAME equity partners.
• In 2021, Paul, Weiss's Colleague Connect Circles program was shortlisted for "Best Diversity Initiative" by The American Lawyer.
• Ranked 11th among large law firms in the 2021 Law360 Pulse's Diversity Snapshot Report.