McCann FitzGerald LLP

At McCann FitzGerald LLP, we are committed to ensuring our workplace reflects the diversity of our wider society. It is a core policy of the firm to nurture a collaborative and inclusive environment which empowers our people to fulfil their ambition and helps them to develop and grow.  Specific achievements of this policy during 2023 include:

• Appointed our first dedicated Head of Responsible Business;
• Published our first Responsible Business strategy which specifically addresses our DE&I goals;
• Established DE&I sub-committees for each of our agreed pillars – Gender, LGBTQ+, Race/ethnicity, Social mobility, Disability and neurodiversity – to drive programme implementation;
• Renewed our Diversity accreditation from the Irish Centre for Diversity;
• Set an ambition and target that, by 2030, we would have not less than 40% female partners (published as part of our most recent gender pay gap report);
• 57% of our Of Counsel promotions were female;
• Delivered a 12-month mentorship programme for our senior female associates – MF ConneX;
• Enhanced our Family Leave policies including paternity leave, maternity leave, fertility treatment leave and pregnancy loss leave;
• Refreshed our Evolve programme supporting colleagues returning from maternity and adoption leave;
• Delivered unconscious bias training and formally adopted strengths-based assessments as a key tool in our recruitment processes;
• Delivered on a commitment that at least 10% of interviewees for our traineeship programme come from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds;
• Continued philanthropic support of university access programmes such as the Trinity Access Programme and the DCU Access Service; and
• Continued our engagement with the Trinity College for People with Intellectual Disabilities (TCPID) and hosted students on placements.