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The National Association for Law Placement’s 2025 report on law firm diversity, opens new tab includes data from 180 law firms — 47 fewer than the previous year. As a result, its dataset includes demographic information on 31,000 fewer lawyers than the previous report, which represents a 29% decline. NALP includes the information in a database for law students researching employers.
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NALP and Gray declined to name the firms that did not provide lawyer demographic data.
Law firm diversity and inclusion programs quickly emerged as a target during the second Trump administration. In March 2025 the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission demanded detailed hiring data from 20 major firms, including applicant names and whether race or gender influenced their employment decisions. The agency has since said it had not collected any personal information on firm employees or job applicants.
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Large law firms — those with more than 700 lawyers — accounted for a disproportionate amount of this year’s missing diversity data, NALP found. Attorneys at those firms made up 63% of the 2024 lawyer dataset, but just 56% of the 2025 count. Large firms often have the highest levels of racial and gender diversity, the NALP report noted.
With the caveat that this year’s dataset is smaller, NALP’s latest report shows that racial diversity at U.S. law firms in 2025 declined across all lawyer categories except for partners, which remained flat at 12.67%
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