The Future of Hogan Lovells—and Maybe Big Law—Is Female

I find most of Big Law’s efforts promoting gender equality to be lame, but Hogan Lovells’ new partnership class got my attention: It is 58% women.

What’s thrilling is that women at Hogan not only beat the odds—the 2,800-lawyer firm only made 38 partners—but also came up on top. It sure is nice to see more firms announcing new partnership classes that are close to 50% women. But it’s much more satisfying when women cream men at their game.

It almost seems plausible that the script can be flipped—with female partners running the show and men playing second fiddle. Imagine ...