ChIPs Honor Roll Survey for Law Firms

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1 Contact Information Thank you for helping us achieve our goals by setting aside time to complete our survey by April 24, If you have any question please direct them to * 1. Organization Name * 2. Organization Address Address City State -- select state -- Zip * 3. Contact information First Name Last Name Title Phone number address Governance Committee * 4. What is the name of your firm's primary governance committee? 1

2 * 5. How many members does it have? * 6. How are the members selected? * 7. How many members are currently Compensation * 8. Compensation Comittee How many members does the group that determines your partners compensation have? How are they selected? How many are currently * 9. Compensation Related Of the group of partners who are in the top 25% of your firm by total compensation, what percentage are How many partners total are in your firm's highest compensation tier? How many women, if any, are in that highest compensation tier? 2

3 * 10. Does your firm has a compensation system that is lockstep by seniority? Yes No Comment * 11. Please provide the total number of partners serving in any of the following positions or their equivalent, and identify which of those positions are held by women Total number of partners How many firm chair who are How many firm-wide managing partners who are How many department heads who are How many practice group heads who are 3

4 * 12. Please provide the following information for your firm, where it is applicable Total partners in your firm Total partners who are women Total partners in the USA Total partners in the USA who are women Total partners internationally Total partners internationally who are women Total equity partners Total equity partners who are women Total non-equity partners Total non-equity partners who are women Total partners in which a second level of approval is required to move from an initial partnership status to full partnership status Total partners who are women in which a second level of approval is required to move from an initial partnership status to full partnership status Other (please specify) * 13. What are the largest departments in your firm? * 14. In the past five years has the chair of any of them been a woman? Yes No If "Yes," in what department? * 15. What percentage of the lateral partners your firm has brought in each of the past five years were 4

5 * 16. What percentage of associates your firm hired from law school or clerkships in each of the past ten years were * 17. What percentage of your partnership class that was promoted from your associate ranks in each of those ten years were Optional Questions Answering these questions is not required to complete the survey, but we would appreciate it if you answered as many as you are able given information available to you, as we are considering adding these questions to the survey next year and want to start gathering information on them now if possible. 18. Litigation Related What is the total number of litigation partners? Of those total litigation partners, how many women litigation partners do you have? Within the past 2 years, how many women partners have been first chair in a case (including arbitrations and appeals) for which your firm has been retained? How many women and men have first chaired a trial or arbitration or argued an appeal in an IP case within the past 2 years? Within the past 2 years, what percentage of your women and men litigation associates have presented a witness in an IP trial or arbitration, argued a dispositive motion or Markman hearing, or presented oral argument at an appeal? If you do not track this information, are you willing to commit to start tracking this information going forward so that you can include it in survey responses in future years? 5

6 19. Patent Related What is the total number of patent prosecution lawyers in your firm? What is the total number of women patent prosecution lawyers in your firm? What percentage of patent prosecution partners are 20. IPR Matters How many total IPR matters has your firm handled (including current matters)? How many IPR matters first chaired by 21. Maternity Leaves Please describe the terms of your firm's maternity and paternity leave policies How long is the maternity & paternity leave and how much of that time is compensated? How many women partners do you have who took maternity leaves and/or worked part-time for child care reasons either before or after they became a partner? Do you track how many women and how many men use these policies and the length of their leaves? 6

7 22. Training Programs and Tools Does your firm provide elimination of bias training for partners and associates? How often does your firm provide this training? Are there tools your firm uses to try to ensure that associate evaluations are free of conscious or unconscious biases? If yes to previous question, and you think those tools have been useful, are you willing to identify them to ChIPs so that we can suggest them to other firms? Are there any programs you have that you think are particularly effective at retaining and promoting women associates that you would be willing to describe to ChIPs so that we can suggest those concepts to other firms? If yes, please list the programs. Are there any programs or practices that your in-house clients run that you think have been effective in promoting the advancement of women in the profession, either in-house or at firms? If so, please describe them and what in particular you have thought was effective, so that we might be able to share those with other firms and in-house counsel. 23. In 2015 and 2016, what percentage of the activities where your firm put out a press release were led by 24. If your firm tracks awards given to its attorneys (excluding awards for diversity etc.), what percentage of those awards have been given to women in the last 2 years? 7