Founded in Paris in 1920, Gide is a leading international law firm with 12 offices spread throughout the world.
Gide is physically present in six regions of the world, with 11 offices, enabling it to act on cases globally.
20 June 2018
Alongside the 3,700 other signatories of the Charte de la Diversité (French national diversity charter), Gide commits to combating discrimination, and promoting diversity and equal opportunities. With its 14 offices worldwide and over 35 nationalities represented within the firm, Gide is fully aware of the significance of these challenges: they represent part of the firm's attractiveness in the eyes of talented young lawyers and clients alike, and stem above all from the clear requirement to be in step with society as a whole.
The representativeness of women within the firm is essential. Although women today represent 55.4% of all lawyers in France*, their access to partnership, particularly in business law firms, can still be largely improved. Because their professional career can be less linear than that of men, Gide has put in place personalised monitoring of women's careers. Experience feedback roundtables are thus regularly organised between women partners and associates, and events are organised specifically for them, such as our InspiringWomen@Gide cycle of conferences.
Diversity at Gide also means paying particular attention to talent: attracting associates from a wide variety of cultural backgrounds and building their loyalty is essential to better decipher the subtleties of each market and to better understand the cultural diversity of clients. Training and honing lawyers' potential is also an important objective. For some ten years now, with the Sciences Po Law School in Paris, Gide has been awarding two Grants for Excellence to students with few financial resources.
Gide senior partner Xavier de Kergommeaux states:
In signing this Charter, we are committing to being even more exemplary in the promotion of diversity and combating all forms of discrimination.
>> Find out more about the French national diversity charter
* Ministry of Justice statistics for the legal profession, 2017.
