While women have made some progress in the partner ranks at large law firms, women are lagging at the associate level, The Washington Post reported earlier this week: "Women make up 20.2 percent of partners at major law firms — up from 19.9 percent in 2012 — but the percentage of women associates dipped slightly from 45.1 to 44.8 percent over the same period, according to a report released this month by the National Association for Law Placement, the District-based group that tracks diversity and career advancement issues in the legal industry. It is the fourth year in a row that the ratio of women associates has dropped since it reached a high of 45.7 percent in 2009."
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