Working Mother – August 2019

32 Workingmother.com | august/september 2019

Best

Wo m e n 2019

Law Firms

for

Fish & Richardson

Boston, MA

President and CEO

Peter Devlin

Principal and Chair,

EMPOWER

Teresa Lavoie

In 2018, 64 percent of eligible

legal staff took advantage of

the firm’s Parental Leave

Phased Hours Program.

Primary caregivers may elect

to take a 25 percent reduction

in billable hours for up to four

weeks prior to and following

parental leave.

Foley & Lardner

Milwaukee, WI

Chairman and CEO

Jay Rothman

Partner Adria Warren

Career-development retreats for

women attorneys were imple-

mented, focusing on leadership

and business development,

executive presence, and paths

to partnership.

Frankfurt Kurnit

Klein & Selz

New York, NY

Managing Partner

Jeffrey Greenbaum

Partner Terri Seligman

The firm launched a Parent

Initiative—an internal group

dedicated to supporting and

educating moms and dads.

The firm’s parental-leave

policy allows the primary

caregiver to take up to

20 weeks of paid leave, and

the nonprimary caregiver to

take up to six weeks.

Fredrikson & Byron

Minneapolis, MN

President John Koneck

Director of Recruiting,

Inclusion & Diversity

Nancy Howard

All women attorneys are

invited to attend a social lunch

every other month to get to

know each other and learn

more about one another’s

practices and discuss current

events that affect women in

the workplace.

Gibbons HALL OF FAME

Newark, NJ

Chairman and Managing

Director Patrick Dunican Jr.

Co-founder, Women’s

Initiative Christine Amalfe

Three of seven promotions to

equity director in 2018 were

women, two of whom also

were named leaders of

significant firm practices—

appellate and higher education.

Women lead the child advo-

cacy team and the Gibbons

Workplace Training Academy,

both launched in 2018. A

woman equity director

was named chair of the

environmental department.

Gray Plant Mooty

Minneapolis, MN

Principal, Managing Officer

Michael Sullivan Jr.

Principal and Chair, Women’s

Initiatives Julia Dayton Klein

The firm sponsored an event

in November for more than 120

lawyers, clients and students

for networking and screening of

the film RBG, which documents

the life of U.S. Supreme Court

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Hanson Bridgett

HALL OF FAME San Francisco, CA

Managing Partner

Andrew Giacomini

Partner Megan Oliver

Thompson

A diversity mentoring program

was launched with quarterly

lunches to support, retain and

promote diverse attorneys by

deepening formal and informal

relationships. Eighty-five

percent of diverse women

associates participate.

Haynes and Boone

Dallas, TX

Managing Partner

Timothy Power

Partners Tamara Devitt and

Erin England

The Women’s Initiative

Committee annually hosts the

Women’s Leadership Academy,

which supports midlevel and

senior female associates

through executive coaching,

mentorship and business-

development opportunities.

Hogan Lovells

Washington, D.C.

Partner Eve Howard

Partner Leigh Oliver

The firm launched a U.S.

National Diversity Committee

—led by Global CEO Steven

J. Immelt—to evaluate the

high-potential pipeline, which is

more than 75 percent women.

The committee reviews poli-

cies, practices and processes to

ensure they are inclusive of

women and underrepresented

groups.

Holland & Hart Denver, CO

Managing Partner

Thomas O’Donnell

Partner, Women’s Forum

Co-chair Leslie Boyle

The Attorney Mentoring

program was launched in July

2018 and successfully matched

85 mentees with 82 mentors

(some mentors volunteered to

take on multiple mentees).

Fifty-seven percent of mentees

and 35 percent of mentors

are female.

Jackson Lewis

White Plains, NY

Co-chairs William Anthony

and Kevin Lauri

Principal Sarah Ryan

In 2018, the firm elected its

most diverse board of directors

with 13 members, four of

whom are women principals.

The board directs the firm’s

activities and selects commit-

tee members responsible for

other key leadership initiatives.

Katten Muchin

Rosenman HALL OF FAME

Chicago, IL

Chairman Roger Furey

Partner Laura Keidan Martin

The firm hosted its inaugural

Women’s Partner Summit in

November, where attendees

identified solutions to challenges

for women, such as criteria and

processes for pay and promo-

tions, improved transparency

and feedback, working-parent

support, and mentoring.

Kirkland & Ellis Chicago, IL

Chairman Jeffrey Hammes

Head of Women’s Initiatives

Linda Myers

In 2018, women represented

30 percent of the firm’s

promotions to equity

partnership in the U.S. Thirty

women also were promoted to

non-equity partners, nearly

30 percent of the U.S. total.

Latham & Watkins

HALL OF FAME New York, NY

Chair and Managing Partner

Richard Trobman

Co-chair, Women Enriching

Business Committee

Mary Rose Alexander

Approximately 29 percent of

promoted U.S. partners are

women. One-third of those are

women of color. In 2018, nearly

half of the firm’s executive-

committee members were

working mothers.

Ability to

work remotely

and have

more-flexible

schedules is

increasing.