Ethnicity 2006/7

Ethnicity: partners and employees in our London office 2006/7	Partners and principal consultants (per cent)	Associates (per cent)	Trainees (per cent)	Paralegals (per cent)	Business services (per cent)	London office (per cent)
White	65	67	75	66	69	68
Black, minority ethnic	3	11	10	13	12	11
Percentage of people who have chosen not to specify	32	22	15	21	19	21

In September 2007, 11 per cent of our trainee lawyers and 18 per cent of our future trainees (those who have accepted offers to work at our firm) were black and minority ethnic people – the Law Society’s target is 10 per cent. We are pleased to see an increase in the proportion of trainee lawyers from black and minority ethnic people and hope this will continue and make our firm more reflective of the communities in which we operate.