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More Biglaw Firms Encourage Associates and Staff To Use Gender Pronouns In Email Signatures

“Biglaw firms across the globe continue to promote diversity and inclusion among their ranks by instituting transgender-friendly workplace policies. To that end, many firms have decided to embrace the full gender spectrum by encouraging any and all employees — not just their transgender, genderqueer, and nonbinary employees — to use gender pronouns in their email signatures.” writes Staci Zaretsky in Above The Law’s BigLaw.

Earlier Above the Law “wrote about Sidley Austin’s heartening step forward when it offered firmwide approval and support for employees to add gender pronouns to their signature blocks. As it turns out, many other firms have done the exact same thing.”

The article provides a few of these signature blocks, including facts about each firm’s steps toward inclusivity.

Read the article.

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