SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON AGE DISCRIMINATION
IN THE PROFESSION

The Special Committee on Age Discrimination in the Profession issued its Report in January 2007 (view report here), which was approved on March 30, 2007 by the Association's Executive Committee and on March 31, 2007 by its House of Delegates.

Thereafter the Special Committee conducted a survey of New York law firms with respect to their partnership retirement policies, the results of which gave rise to the Honor Roll set forth below.

The Special Committee has ceased its activities as such, but its work is continuing under the auspices of the Age Discrimination Committee of the Senior Lawyers Section.  Please visit its webpage here.

The undersigned law firms have pledged that: (i) their firm supports a partnership retirement policy that does not require partners to retire automatically upon reaching a specific age; (ii) their firm intends to discontinue any mandatory age-based partner retirement policy; and (iii) their firm will evaluate retirement-eligible partners individually, consistent with the firm’s performance criteria.

Aaronson Rappaport Feinstein & Deutsch LLP
Binder & Binder P.C.
Bivona and Cohen PC
Bryan Cave LLP
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane
Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Duane Morris LLP
Fox Horan & Camerini, LLP
Graubard Miller
Hoffinger Stern & Ross LLP
Kane Kessler, P.C.
Morris Duffy Alonso & Faley
Pryor Cashman LLP
Robinson Brog Leinwand Greene Genovese & Gluck PC
Sidley Austin LLP