#disabled psu foxes

[genyasafinsmissingeye]

The Problem with Sexuality Headcanons and Forced Representation

(This could also include race and gender identity headcanons if you please, however I’m white and cis so I don’t have a voice on this topic in much detail)

There is nothing wrong with making headcanons (Meaning: assumptions about a fictional character with either no backup in the canon or some suggestion of it). I have quite a few myself, that I share on my page. However, sometimes it gets to the point where these headcanons overshadow the real representation in books in favour for something with no real merit.

An example of this, in my opinion, is present in the Six of Crows fandom. Some people in the fandom seem to be obsessed with saying that Inej is bisexual, or that Kaz is asexual, and proceed to ignore how revolutionary the real diversity was. High fantasy is a genre with an infamous lack of diversity, and SOC gave us a disabled, two bisexual, one gay, a plus size and two POC protagonists. While this should be celebrated and admired, it isn’t as appreciated as it should. Another example is the TV show Glee. Nearly every single character in the show has been headcanoned as a member of the LGBTQ+ community, but the revolutionary queer characters are rarely acknowledged on social media (Primarily TikTok) for their role in queer identity. I’ve seen videos praising  LGBTQ+ characters on screen that hadn’t included any canonical representation. I as a lesbian don’t feel repersented by the headcanon that Quinn Fabray is a lesbian- I felt represented by Santana’s coming out process and her relationship with Brittany that made me believe I could fall in love with a woman. Isn’t that what diversity is about, being represented? When there’s no actual worth to it, it becomes forced.

It could be argued in Glee’s situation that because the diversity itself isn’t the best (See: The biphobia and stereotypes. This can be acknowledged while still appreciating its worth) viewers have the right to make their own, and this leads to my next point: When does made up diversity become necessary? This is the case of one of my favourite fandoms, the All for the Game fandom, with most of its representation coming from the fans rather than the canon. In AFTG the only POC characters are villians or morally questionable, the rest of the loveable cast being white. However, almost all of the PSU foxes have been headcanoned as POC along with queer as the LGBTQ+ rep is subpar at most. In my opinion, this is a scenario where it’s acceptable to make up representation, because there was none to begin with. This is often seen in media with book to screen adaptations, such as in The Umbrella Academy, turning some of the original white, cis-het comic book characters into POC’s and queer. 

In conclusion, headcanons are fun and they should stay fun, but they shouldn’t be used to overshadow, minimize or replace real representations in media. If you have any thoughts, I’d like to hear them! 

[codename-adler]

...dance 'til you find someone to die for...

What if instead of Seth, Riko tried to get rid of Aaron?

Chapter 13 ♟️ [table of contents]

(CW: mentioned/referenced/implied past abuse, minor talk of injuries, disability awareness + inaccuracies, swearing, alcoholism, mental health issues, medical inaccuracies)

The week leading up to the Ravens game right here at PSU had Aaron’s guts twist on themselves every time he thinks about these bastards walking into their territory, as if his insides hadn’t been through enough.

He hated it.

Once he was out of medical danger and his organs didn’t threaten to burst open, Aaron agreed to move out of the hospital and seek refuge at Abby’s place.

He hated it.

At the start of the summer, Aaron had seen the way Neil moved around Wymack, and had immediately understood why. However, Wymack had organized himself around Neil’s 'special needs’, while Abby here didn’t seem to catch on that while Aaron was, very deep down, grateful for her interventions since the beginning of this whole horror story, he still couldn’t consider her someone safe to be around.

He still had his mother’s picture that Kevin gave him buried under his pillow, and her ghost seemed to reopen wounds too young to have healed and to steal the face of any woman nearing her age. Abby had a healthy body, a healthy and focused face, short brown hair, and she was no more than 3 inches taller than Aaron. She was nothing like Tilda Minyard, who was a skeleton at best, foggy eyed and haunted face, dirty blonde hair down to her waist, and towering 6 or 7 inches over Aaron. Even so. Aaron would have preferred to steal Coach’s couch and mess up his stitches rather than spend one more week in the nurse’s lovely home.

He understood why going back to his dorm wasn’t a safe option and why it was technically impossible, what with its non wheelchair-friendly amenities. Yeah. Like Aaron wasn’t short enough as it is, he now had to move around in a stupid wheelchair that made him look even smaller. Walking on his own 2 feet was too soon and put his recovering organs and bones at too great a risk, even with the constricting and painful rib brace he had to wear all the time.

In the house, he could walk while sitting down in the chair, in a pace that made him look utterly stupid, but still, he could manage on his own. If Aaron wanted to go out, though, he had to be accompanied by someone to push him around, because using his arms or his legs would mess up his guts too much.

Needless to say, Aaron never went out.

Nicky came by every free period he had and tried to rope him into going to the park (after all, a wheelchair isn’t so different from a skateboard, Aaron, imagine the tricks you could do, but Aaron had almost stood up to slap him when he’d said that, so Nicky abandoned that tactic), yet Aaron always refused. Sometimes Andrew dropped by to bring him extra notes from the classes he pretended to attend in Aaron’s place, which confused his teachers more than it helped Aaron, but he didn’t say a word about that, secretly glad his brother hadn’t forgotten about his existence. Aaron didn’t do much except hide in Abby’s guest room, and study. Most of all, he thought about Exy.

About how he’d started playing to escape, and how he was now stuck away from it, because it had put a target on his back. About how he’d started to escape and find something for himself, and how his family now played on while he was left behind. About how he’d have to watch from the sidelines as the Ravens tore into the Foxes, into Kevin.

And he thought about Kevin so much, too. Because you couldn’t think about Exy without thinking about its son.

With Aaron out of service, Kevin had no more incentive not to drink; only Andrew and fucking Josten could save him now. To add even more to that stress, Aaron guilted over the fact that he didn’t know which of one his thoughts was worse: wondering if, wishing that his absence on the court would cost the Foxes their victory against the Ravens, or believing, fearing that his absence on the court would benefit the Foxes and help them win against the Ravens. He wanted to ask Nicky, he wanted to ask Kevin if the jerk could show his face, but he didn’t really want to know the answer. He kind of knew it already. Only the game on Friday would confirm or deny it.

That is what Aaron thought about the most. Not his injuries, not his brother, not Riko or Kevin, or school; this, his place on the team.

Aaron had never thought about going pro, he’d never wished to be praised by the world of Exy, he’d never hoped to make a difference, to change the course of history, to be remembered. He hated Exy, and that was that

But wasn’t there a part of passion in hatred?

Hadn’t Exy made itself the center of his world, somehow?

Hadn’t Aaron himself made Exy the center of his world?

He pushed the nagging questions away as a knock on the door startled him.

“Aaron, Kevin is here to see you. Will you come out?” Abby asked him through the door, her voice muffled.

Fucking shit.

Kevin had not seen him since he got out of the hospital. He had not seen him in the wheelchair. He had not seen him this vulnerable, in this toneless, weak and broken body, withering away as the days went by. It was different than in the hospital, where the sheets and tubes hid most of the damage. It was different than when he was at the peak of danger, when his body fought every second, when it was apparent than the beating had just occurred.

Now…

Now he was supposed to be getting better. He was supposed to gain back what he’d lost. And Aaron felt like he was still losing.

The bedroom door opened without Aaron answering Abby’s question, and Kevin entered. Aaron felt shame coloring his cheeks. There was the big and great Kevin Day, and here he was, small and pathetic in his chair. Aaron clenched his jaw and stubbornly fixed his eyes on the carpet.

Kevin wanted to shake him out of it.

“Abby called me. Said you were being…” a little bitch, Kevin almost said. “…Difficult.”

Aaron refused to look up still.

“And you just… came?” Aaron mumbled, mentally wincing at the innuendo he’d made.

Kevin didn’t pick up on it.

“Yes. Let’s get out of here,” Kevin stated without hesitation.

Aaron froze.

“Kevin… No.”

That made Kevin turn around.

“...Why?” he asked.

“I… can’t. Not in… this.”

“I don’t see what’s the problem with you being in a wheelchair,” Kevin replied.

“No? You don’t see the problem? You don’t? LOOK AT ME. I can’t go anywhere on my own! I’m losing all the strength that I have, and I can’t do shit about it! I need someone to push me around if I want to do a goddamn thing! Tell me again how you don’t see what the problem is!” Aaron suddenly yelled as he looked up.

Kevin stared at him for a few seconds.

“So, what… You don’t think I can do it?” Kevin asked.

“You- What?” Aaron stammered

“You think I can’t drive you around? You’re scared I’ll make you crash or something?”

“No? I just-” Aaron tried to explain

“Well then shut the fuck up.”

That was the end of it for Kevin, for he walked around Aaron and started wheeling him out of the room. Aaron was too stunned and fuming to ask where Kevin was taking him. It wasn’t until Kevin had been walking for a while and Aaron could see a familiar green hill that he realized where they were heading.

“Seriously, Kevin? You fucking asshole. Did Nicky put you up to this? It’s not fucking funny!” Aaron yelled at him once again.

“What? Nicky said you liked it here!” Kevin yelled back this time.

“Yeah, when I have my skateboard! And since when do you listen to anything Nicky says?”

“Wait, your skate- You actually skate here?”

“Yes! What do you think I was doing with a board in our dorm? And where do you think I went every time I wasn’t there?” Aaron prompted, pissed.

“Well… I thought it was just a souvenir you carried around… And usually you’re studying all the time, so…” Kevin answered, embarrassed.

“Oh my fucking- I’m not a that much of a fucking nerd! I do plenty of things you have no idea of… Just because it’s not Exy doesn’t mean it’s meaningless. And I do have to study a lot more that you, dipshit! Doesn’t mean I have no life or ambition…” Aaron said, subtly voicing many of his insecurities without meaning to.

“Stop moving around so much, you’re gonna break something, another rib, most likely. Also, I never said anything about your studies or skating, so fuck you for that,” Kevin replied.

“But you believe those things. Same difference,” Aaron muttered.

Kevin didn’t answer this time, because Aaron was too stubborn to believe anything else, so he just continued wheeling Aaron up the hill so they could watch the skate park. When Kevin made a move to let go of Aaron’s chair at the top of the hill, he earned himself another earful.

“KEVIN! You need to put the breaks on, Jesus fuck! You moron! Have you finally joined in on Seth’s plan to get rid of me or what?” Aaron spat.

“I’m SORRY! I forgot! Will you stop fucking yelling for two seconds? I’m trying to be nice here,” Kevin spat back.

“…Why?”

That took Kevin aback. Several minutes passed before he answered.

“Because… Our deal. You’re not at our dorm anymore. You’re not there anymore. And we’ll be facing the Ravens in like, four days. I don’t think I’ve spent a day without drinking. I can’t help it. I can’t stand it, I can’t stand myself, I can’t stand the world. If you’re not there… I have nothing to stop me. I’ve been wanting a drink all afternoon. So I’m here. I can’t drink, here.”

“Yes you can.”

“No, I can’t. I promised,” Kevin shot back without missing a beat.

“Kevin. I can’t walk. I can’t even stand up. I’m useless. I told you, our deal is worthless now,” Aaron carried on.

“It’s not. Not to me.”

Aaron looked up at Kevin, who had walked around to stand in front of him.

“I want to stop drinking, Aaron. I want to keep our deal. It doesn’t matter to me that we’re having a temporary setback. I need your help, I need our deal, because I want to be better. So now it’s my turn to give you something, to keep this. What do you want?” Kevin asked.

What do you want?

What do you want, Aaron?

“A friend.”

Kevin looked surprised, if not horrified.

“I’m…” Kevin started.

I’m not the right person for this.

I’m an asshole.

I’m a drunk.

I’m gonna fuck it up.

I’m not used to that.

I don’t know how.

You won’t like me if you know me.

You shouldn’t ask me that.

You should pick someone else.

Someone better.

Someone worthy.

“Okay,” Kevin decided.

“Now, if 'the friend’ could help me out of this fucking chair, that’d be great,” Aaron said to diffuse the tension.

His words only created more very tensed actions. Aaron couldn’t put weight on his upper body, couldn’t push it, so he had to rely on all of Kevin’s strength to get up. Kevin went to Aaron’s right side and took the man’s arm to place it around his waist, holding it there with his right hand. Kevin placed his other arm under Aaron’s, careful to grip the rib brace and not under it, where Aaron’s guts were still healing. He counted back from 3 and on 1, he used all his strength to lift Aaron up into a standing position. Holding Aaron with everything that he had, Kevin slowly moved away from the chair. The grass underneath their feet was lush and soft, enough to be a cushion for Aaron’s body.

“Ready to sit down?” Kevin asked instead of asking the real question bothering him, the ever unhelpful Are you okay?

“Fucking get on with it already,” Aaron muttered between clenched teeth.

As Kevin lowered them to the ground, he felt Aaron’s body tense and looked at his face in time to see his features scrunching up in a wince.

“Sorry! I’m sorry, we’re almost there, sorry, so-”

“I’m okay. Just put me down.”

Kevin did, then carefully placed his hand on Aaron’s back to make him rest in the grass, his other hand still holding on to Aaron’s where it gripped his waist. Once he was lying down, looking up at the blue sky, Aaron exhaled. Somehow he could breathe better. It had nothing to do with the chair or the grass or the sky. Kevin lay down beside him after a while, turning his face to look at Aaron’s.

“What,” Aaron said without tearing his eyes away from the sky.

“I want you to come back to the dorms.”

“I don’t know if you noticed, but that wheelchair over there isn’t exactly a choice. How do you plan on getting me up the stairs of Fox Tower, huh? I’m not a fucking baby you can put in a chest carrier, Kevin. I have to stay at Abby’s,” Aaron said.

“I know… But it sucks. How am I supposed to stay sober when every time I want to drink, which is always, you’re not there?” Kevin replied.

“You can’t put your whole sobriety into my hands like that, Kevin…”

“I know, I know. But it’s a start, and… If I don’t start now, I won’t ever. This deal holds me accountable. And you know I can’t be seen in AA meetings, even if the whole point of those is the 'anonymity’. I- It’s all I can manage right now, Aaron. And I’m sure I’ll mess up and I know I will drink anyways one day or another, but… I’m tired, Aaron. There must be a way to make this work, to make this easier… Please.”

Aaron turned his face to stare at him, then.

That word.

How foreign it was.

How strange it sounded from the mouth of Kevin Day.

“Fine. Follow a schedule, then. You’re insanely obsessive of those, aren’t you? Then do that. Go to practice. Go to class. Go back to practice. And when you’re done, when you’re free, come back here. Anytime you feel like drinking, come here. Abby can help too. She cares for you, I hope you’ve noticed that. And you can get me out of there, too. That’ll please Abby. And me. So, do that. We’ll do that, okay?”

Kevin closed his eyes and inhaled deeply. The air smelled of the sun, of grass, of leaves, of herbal shampoo, of Aaron…

Kevin sighed and opened his eyes to look back at Aaron.

“Okay.”

(read on Ao3 here !)

[nekojitachan]

77 + 86 for andreil please

*******

Okay, since I can answer prompts/asks again.

In Vino Veritas and I didn’t mean to turn you on.

Ha. Time to be mean to Andrew. Should be okay, nothing graphic (sorry, trying to keep these short and all).

Okay, so Neil’s third year at PSU – the girls have graduated and it’s Matt’s and Kevin’s last year. Neil’s settling in as captain, the Foxes are doing better than the year before, they just made it to the semi-playoffs and beat Penn State at a home game so the team (with Vixens) is celebrating. That means a party in the basement level at the Fox Tower, and Neil… Neil has actually had a few shots since Matt and Nicky are on him to have fun, he’s surrounded by his teammates and friends, and Andrew is there.

(Andrew is drinking as well, but his tolerance is legendary and he’s content to pace himself since Neil is letting himself go a little for once, and his family’s enjoying themselves).

Andrew’s found a quiet corner to tuck himself into (and disabled the smoke alarm) and can watch (or try not to watch, in some cases) Aaron and Katelyn snuggle together on the one couch or slow dance now and then, Kevin argue with Jack about how best to handle the Trojans, Nicky drink the freshmen under the table (so to speak – someone was going to have one hell of a hangover in the morning) then act like an idiot whenever a song he liked was played, and Neil….

Neil had that smile on his face each time a drunk Matt wrapped his arms around him and lifted him off the floor in what was meant to be a gesture of affection (or he’d have been stabbed already) the sappy, soft expression which made Andrew’s heart pound in his chest. His rare, loud laughter filled the room as Crystal and Maddy, two of the freshmen, tried to teach him some complicated dance (one where, among other things, he ran his hands along his body while gyrating – Andrew nearly spit out a mouthful of whiskey when Neil got the hang of it). The looks loaded with meaning he directed toward Andrew throughout the party.

It took all of Andrew’s willpower to not get up, grab hold of Neil’s hand and drag him up to their empty dorm suite because Neil had been drinking, and that meant he couldn’t fully consent to what Andrew wanted to do to him right then.

And oh how Andrew wanted to do things….

When Nicky seemed to have finally had enough (had too much), he left him to Kevin (who’d cut back on his own drinking as he slowly recovered from the years at Edgar Allan) while he collected his boyfriend. Neil gave him the most beautiful smile by way of greeting (which didn’t help with the whole want thing) and waved goodbye to Matt as he left the party without argument, steady enough on his feet to make Andrew think that he was sobering up.

Still, all Andrew allowed that night was a brief kiss before they fell asleep.

To Neil’s surprise, he woke up in the morning just a little later than usual and, before he could even begin to debate on if he wanted to go through with his morning run, found himself hauled out of bed by an already awake Andrew.

A very determined Andrew.

A very determined Andrew who’d gotten very little sleep the entire night as he dwelt on what he’d do to an awake, sober, consenting Neil once they were alone.

They left a note for the others that they’d be in Columbia for the rest of the weekend and then were on their way.

(They spent most of it in the bedroom once they reached the house.)

(Neil swore to himself when he got back to campus that he’d ask Matt what the hell he’d done during the party to set Andrew off like that, because he certainly intended to do it again.)

[loyallogic]

Gender diversity in leadership of Indian law firms

This article is written by Ramanuj Mukherjee.

Are Indian law firms gender diverse? We took a look at the top 50 law firms as per RSG rankings of 2019. 

We went to their websites, and took a look at how many men v. women are partners in those law firms. Of course, the websites do to identify partners by their gender, but we took the liberty to assume what gender they are from based on traditional markers such as name and pictures. We have assumed they are either men or women, and we have no data available, based on enquiries (we spoke to lawyers at some of these firms), that there are partners of third gender or any partner who identify themselves as belonging to any other gender. 

In several cases, the websites did not list the partners at all. In that case, we tried to look into other resources such as brochures and firm profiles circulated during office retreats, but we decided to finally not include such data as we were not sure regarding currentness and accuracy of such information.

We also wanted to gather data of how many candidates of different genders are hired at the ground level – fresher recruitment. However, gathering that data proved much harder.

It is not impossible that some of the data may be outdated as partners leave and join law firms all the time and websites may not be updated.

If there are any inaccuracies with respect to details we collected about your firm, please feel free to reach out and let us know. We would immediately correct the report.

We were able to gather some interesting data

Based on our findings, we have classified the firms into different groups. Some of the firms had a majority of women partners. Others had a fair share of women partners, while some of the largest law firms had very few women partners, and most of the partners were men. 

This report is not intended to pass any judgment on any of the firms. We are simply drawing obvious inferences based on the data these law firms have put out in the public domain. 

We hope this report would help the law firm leaderships to reflect on where they stand in the matter of gender diversity and how they could move forward. We hope that it may also help gender justice researchers looking at the legal profession. 

The matter of diversity should not be restricted to gender diversity, and could possibly be expanded to other parameters such as disability, caste, economically backward sections, state of origin, religion, age etc. 

Diversity is not meant to help people from weaker sections alone, but it makes any organisation stronger and smarter. We can definitely expect an organisation with a high level of diversity to be smarter and draw upon varied wisdom and cultural knowledge.

Also, an organization with diverse leadership is more likely to attract talented young lawyers from a wider talent pool.

Firms that enable diversity and encourage career growth of lawyers placed in difficult situations must be recognised and encouraged. We hope an organisation with requisite expertise will start an award program to encourage law firm diversity. 

LawSikho will be happy to support any such initiative in any way we can.

We intend to do similar research about Indian judiciary, looking at the number of judges from different genders as per available data. We are exploring if we could do similar research on other areas of legal profession such as public prosecutor appointments, government law officers as well as appointment of law officers by PSUs. It is relatively easier to get data of this kind from government departments, thanks to RTI!

Please do share more ideas for surveys and research of this kind with us, and we will be very happy to carry them out wherever feasible. 

Let’s jump into the information we found and couldn’t find.

Firms for which data could not be availed

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas

L & L Partners

Nishith Desai Associates

DSK Legal

Platinum Partners

Desai & Diwanji

Fox Mandal

Majumdar & Partners

Juris Corp

Tatva Legal

Spice Route Legal

Lawyers at Work Law

Krishnamurthy & Co

The names on their current partners are not available on their respective websites or any other authoritative sources.

We will request these firms to share their data with us and we will update our list once we get those details. 

Law firms with less than 5 partners

This is a special category, as it is not fair to compare a law firm with 2-4 partners with larger firms. In a very small sample size, data can be misleading. However, for the purpose of transparency, we are putting out this data as well.   

S.No.

Law Firm

Total partners

Male

Female

Female percentage

1

Advaita Legal

2

2

0

0

2

ZBA

2

1

1

50

3

Vertices Partner

4

3

1

25

4

Pioneer Legal

4

3

1

25

5

Singularity

1

1

0

0

7

Novo Juris Legal

1

0

1

100

Rest of the firms (with 5 or more partners)

Average percentage share of women in partnership roles in 31 top Indian law firms (with 5 or more partners) that we could find data for, stands near 28%. 

The average of 28% of women partners in law firms in India shows an upward shift, when compared to the average number of women leaders in India generally. It would appear that Indian law firms are more gender diverse than the rest of the industry that these firms serve.

According to Grant Thorton’s Women in Business: Beyond Policy to Progress report, the number of women in leadership positions in India stood at 17 per cent in 2017 and witnessed a steady growth to 20 per cent in 2018. 

Moreover, the proportion of female partners in the top 10 UK law firms is 18% according to a 2017 survey by professional services firm PwC, and only 19% in the next 15 firms. 

Based on the national average of around 20% and a similar figure in the share of women partners in UK law firms, it is safe to assume that Indian law firms whose women partnership share is below 20% lag behind in diversity when compared to the market average. 

Compared to this, the 31 firms included in our data from the RSG top 50 firms show superior diversity as far as share of women partners is concerned. The highest percentage of women partners was around 80%, in three firms in this list, while there are less than 10% women partners in only three firms. 

11 law firms lag behind the market average with the share of women partners below 20%.

Categorisation of law firms based on the share of women partners and directors

The total number of partners in these 31 firms is 935 while the total women partners amongst them are 259. Law firms like Dhaval Vussonji & Associates, Ahlawat & Associates and Samvad Partners are examples of women leadership with their share of women partners nearing 80%. Amongst the larger firms, S&R’s share of women partners nears 50%, AZB 33.6%, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas 29.5%, JSA 26%, Trilegal 18.9% and Khaitan & Co. 14.2%.

Exemplars (More than 55% women partners)

S.No.

Law Firm

Total partners

Male

Female

Female percentage

1

Dhaval Vussonji & Associates

5

1

4

80

2

Ahlawat & Associates

5

1

4

80

3

Samvad Partners

14

3

11

78.6

Tier 1 (45 to 55 % women partners)

S.No.

Law Firm

Total partners

Male

Female

Female percentage

4

S & R Associates

16

8

8

50

5

Rajani Associates

10

5

5

50

6

Trust Legal

6

3

3

50

7

Anand & Anand

29

15

14

48.2

8

ALMT Legal

20

11

9

45

Tier 2 (35 to 45 % women partners)

S.No.

Law Firm

Total partners

Male

Female

Female percentage

9

Kochhar & Co

50

31

19

38

10

Singhania and Partners

16

10

6

37.5

11

Argus Partners

17

11

6

35.3

Tier 3 (25 to 35 % women partners)

S.No.

Law Firm

Total partners

Male

Female

Female percentage

12

AZB & Partners

113

75

38

33.6

13

Bharucha & Partners

12

8

4

33.3

14

IndusLaw

46

31

15

32.6

15

CAM

95

67

28

29.5

16

TT & A

7

5

2

28.6

17

J. Sagar Associates

104

77

27

26

18

HSA

27

20

7

26

Tier 4 (0 to 25 % women partners)

S.No.

Law Firm

Total partners

Male

Female

Female percentage

19

JM + P

5

4

1

20

20

ARA Law

5

4

1

20

21

Trilegal

53

43

10

18.9

22

LKS

45

38

7

15.6

23

Phoenix Legal

13

11

2

15.4

24

Vaish Associates Advocate

13

11

2

15.4

25

Link Legal

14

12

2

14.3

26

Veritas Legal

7

6

1

14.3

27

Khurana & Khurana

7

6

1

14.3

28

Khaitan & Co

141

121

20

14.2

29

Khaitan & Khaitan

9

8

1

11.1

30

ELP

25

24

1

4

31

Clasis Law

6

6

0

0

*These statistics have been drawn by surveying the websites of these law firms on 10th June, 2020.** 

Limitations of this exercise

Unfortunately, very little data is made available by law firms on diversity issues. We are trying to engage with these law firms one at a time and trying to get more information on various diversity related aspects. The response so far has not been very encouraging but with more time we hope to make some headway.

Law firms also have some challenges in sharing diversity data. For instance, will the employees be open to sharing their religion, caste or sexual orientation, mental disability related data with their employers? Should law firms ask for such data from their lawyers in the first place?

These are some of the more difficult questions.

But there are other more easily available and public data that could be accessed – related to disability, gender and age.

If anyone is willing to help us with any available data, please reach out to us through our website LawSikho.com or please find me on LinkedIn or Twitter. I am not putting out any personal email id in order to avoid being flooded with junk mail.

How gender diverse is LawSikho

When I showed the draft of this article to some of my friends, they asked me this question. Fair enough.

In LawSikho, we have 4 co-founders, 11 departmental heads and 88 full-time employees. 

Out of 4 co-founders, one of us is a woman and the rest are men.

Out of 11 department heads, 6 are men and 5 are women. 

I must acknowledge…

I have received immense help from Monisha Purwar, a final year law student at RMLNLU who not only compiled the data but is to be credited for almost all of the analysis. I also thank Manish Kumar, my colleague at LawSikho for his outreach with several law firms and my friends at various law firms who helped me to get some insight into the diversity issues of the firms where they work.

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