Work/Life Balance
Working Mother Lists Top 50 Law Firms
Posted Aug 14, 2007, 10:30 am CDT
By Martha Neil
A new player has just entered the law-firm rankings game. Working Mother magazine, in an issue that arrived on newsstands today, has listed 50 law firms that it considers particularly attuned to the concerns of its readers.
"In this, our inaugural Working Mother & Flex-Time Lawyers Best Law Firms for Women list, we salute those firms with groundbreaking programs to help women strike a better work/life balance and climb to the top. Our winning firms have taken the lead in implementing penalty-free flex schedules and mentoring, networking and leadership programs," reports Working Mother in an introduction to its rankings.
However, "despite these advances, there's still work to be done" in the profession, the magazine adds, noting that women have comprised almost half of all law school graduates during the past 15 years, yet still account for a scant 16 percent or so of equity partners.
Its list of the 50 best law firms for working moms, which contains many well-known large firms and runs from Alston & Bird in Atlanta to Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice in Winston-Salem, N.C., also is provided in a press release.
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Posted by John M. Baker - 10 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, 21 hours, 30 minutes ago
The Journal article (and the press release that prompted it) omit a key fact: the survey is limited to U.S.-based firms of 50 or more lawyers, according to the website of one of the organizations that performed the survey. Any “top 50 workplaces” list that omits the vast majority of law firms solely because they are not large is fundamentally flawed and misleading.
Posted by Cathy Reif - 10 months, 2 weeks, 3 days, 22 hours, 13 minutes ago
Still, I like to see the focus on work life balance. I like to see that big firms (any firms!) are using flex scheduling and mentoring to keep the lawyers who are moms advancing in their careers.