Latham may be the first BigLaw firm to offer this benefit to traveling moms
Latham & Watkins has embraced a new trend in employee benefits: It is helping its new moms who travel by shipping their breast milk home.
Latham believes it is the first law firm to offer such a benefit, report Fortune and Law.com.
The articles explain how the program works. Latham sends a cooler and nursing bags to the hotel where its employee will be staying. A flipped switch will keep the cooler chilled for 72 hours. The employee drops the filled cooler at the hotel desk, which ships the cooler to the employee’s home.
Female attorneys and staffers are eligible to participate in the program. Hayley Gladstone, global co-chair of Latham’s Parent Lawyers Group, told Fortune that the 2,200-lawyer firm decided to run the program in-house rather than through a vendor, both to protect employees’ private information and to make sure that deliveries could be done even if employees had unpredictable schedule changes.
Fortune notes that breast-milk shipping programs “have cropped up in industries that are struggling to recruit and retain women, and could be seen as a tool to keep women in the workforce.”
