Gide furthers its commitment to non-discrimination and diversity

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.