Choate Receives 100 Percent Perfect Score as "Best Place to Work" from the Human Rights Campaign for Fifth Consecutive Year

Choate has been named a “Best Place to Work” by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) in its Corporate Equality Index 2016, which assessed 1,024 US companies on corporate policies and practices related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender workplace equality.  For the fifth year in a row, Choate received the highest possible rating of 100 percent.  

“We have received perfect scores from the Human Rights Campaign every year since they first began tracking high workplace equality standards, and it is an honor to once again be at the top of this important ranking,” said Charles Cheever, co-managing partner at Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP. “In an increasing global business environment, diversity and inclusiveness are both strategic priorities and fundamental to our core values as a firm.”

A total of 407 companies achieved a 100 percent rating. Ratings are based on LGBT-related policies and practices including non-discrimination workplace protections; domestic partner benefits; transgender-inclusive health care benefits; firm-wide organizational competency on LGBT issues; and firm-wide public engagement with the LGBT community. This year, companies were also assessed on whether the principles of non-discrimination were codified into policies for global operations, supplier standards, and corporate philanthropy.

“The policies, benefits, and practices businesses must implement to earn a perfect score are best-in-class demonstrations of corporate commitments to LGBT employees, and to a more diverse workplace overall,” said HRC President Chad Griffin.

Founded in 1980, the Human Rights Campaign is the nation’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality, representing more than 1.5 million members and supporters.