The legal industry continues to show improvement on the Human Rights Campaign's annual Corporate Equality Index, which evaluates large law firm and company policies regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees. Of the 156 law firms surveyed by HRC in 2015, 95 received a perfect score, according to the most recent report, which was released Wednesday. That's up from 87 firms that earned perfect scores last year. This year, nine firms received a score of 95 percent, while 10 earned 90 percent. All but six firms surveyed received scores of 80 percent or higher..."We've seen tremendous leadership and also what can be characterized, in a positive way, as hyper competition amongst the firms." [said the director of the Human Rights Campaign's Workplace Equality Program]...Quinn Emanuel's improved score was the result of adding new sexual orientation and gender identity non-discrimination protections to its employment policy, and because the firm adopted transgender-inclusive healthcare coverage...New to this survey were requirements that outside contractors abide by the law firms' non-discrimination policies, and a stipulation that firms could not donate money to non-religious organizations that discriminate against LGBT people...[Also refers to Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, Boies, Schiller & Flexner, Holland & Hart, Hughes Hubbard & Reed, Howard & Howard, Jones Day, LeClair Ryan, Loeb & Loeb, Willkie Farr & Gallagher]