Diversity Data Report: Footner & Ewing Solicitors
We are required to annually collect, report and publish data on the diversity of our workforce. This data is confirmed below.
Role categories
| Total number of respondents | 32 |
| Percentage for each role category within the firm: | |
| · Solicitor (Sole Practitioner, Partner, Member or Director) | 15.63% |
| · Solicitor | 12.5% |
| · Other fee earning role | |
| · Role directly supporting a fee earner | 59.38% |
| · Managerial role | 3.13% |
| · IT/HR/other corporate services role | |
| · Barrister | 3.13% |
| · Chartered Legal Executive / Legal Executive (Fellow) | 4.3% |
| · Licensed Conveyancer | |
| · Patent or Trade Mark Attorney | |
| · Costs Lawyer | |
| · Notary | |
| · Prefer not to say | 6.25% |
Ownership and supervisory responsibilities in the firm
| Total number of respondents | 33 |
| Percentage for each role within the firm: | |
| · Solicitor (Sole Practitioner, Partner, Member or Director) | 12.2% |
| · Associate or Assistant | 27.27% |
| · Other employee or staff member | 54.55% |
| · Prefer not to say | 6.06% |
| Total number of respondents | 33 |
| Percentage of people having a share in the ownership of the firm | 6.06% |
| Total number of respondents | 33 |
| Percentage of people having a responsibility for supervising or managing the work of lawyers or other employees | 39.39% |
Diversity questions:
Age bands (age in years)
| Total number of respondents | 32 |
| Percentage within the firm: | |
| · 16-24 | 6.25% |
| · 25-34 | 9.38% |
| · 35-44 | 15.63% |
| · 45-54 | 43.75% |
| · 55-64 | 15.63% |
| · 65+ | |
| · Prefer not to say | 9.38% |
Gender
| Total number of respondents | 32 |
| Percentage within the firm: | |
| · Female | 81.25% |
| · Male | 12.5% |
| · Prefer not to say | 6.25% |
Partners / Directors / Members / employees with disabilities (according to the definition in the Equality Act 2010)
| Total number of respondents | 32 |
| Percentage within the firm: | |
| · Yes | |
| · No | 93.75% |
| · Prefer not to say | 6.25% |
Partners / Directors / Members / employees with a health problem or disability which has lasted, or is expected to last, at least 12 months (according to the definition in the Equality Act 2010)
| Total number of respondents | 32 |
| Percentage within the firm: | |
| · Yes | |
| · No | 90.63% |
| · Prefer not to say | 9.38% |
Ethnic groups
| Total number of respondents | 32 |
| Percentage within the firm: | |
| · Asian background | |
| · Mixed background | |
| · Black background | |
| · White background | 81.25% |
| · Other ethnic background | |
| · Prefer not to say | 18.75% |
Socio economic background – education: state or fee paying school between the ages of 11 to 18
| Total number of respondents | 33 |
| Percentage within the firm: | |
| · Attended UK state school / comprehensive | 66.67% |
| · Attended UK independent / fee paying school | 12.12% |
| · Attended school outside the UK | 3.03% |
| · Prefer not to say | 18.18% |
Socio economic background – education: Those attending University (to study a BA, BSc course or higher) where they were the first generation in their family to do so
| Total number of respondents | 33 |
| Percentage within the firm: | |
| · Yes | 24.24% |
| · No | 15.15% |
| · Did not attend University | 42.42% |
| · Prefer not to say | 18.18% |
Caring responsibilities: Those who are the primary carer for a child or children under 18
| Total number of respondents | 33 |
| Percentage within the firm: | |
| · Yes | 18.18% |
| · No | 69.7% |
| · Prefer not to say | 12.12% |
Caring responsibilities: Those who look after, or give any help or support to family members, friends, neighbours or others because of either long-term physical or mental ill health / disability or problems related to old age
| Total number of respondents | 33 |
| Percentage within the firm: | |
| · Yes | 36.36% |
| · No | 51.52% |
| · Prefer not to say | 12.12% |
