Yale Law Women has announced its 2009 Top Ten Family Friendly Firms List: Arnold & Porter Cleary Gottlieb Covington & Burling Jenner & Block Katten Muchin Rosenman Mayer Brown Munger, Tolles & Olson Patton Boggs Sidley Austin WilmerHale From the press release: YLW believes that the discussion of family friendly firm policies remains salient in the midst of the current recession… YLW hopes leading firms will use [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 11, 2009
Drinker Biddle will allow its 36 incoming associates to start on time in September; but their salaries will be reduced, and they will enter a training program rather than jumping right in. From a memo so long, we wondered if he catches the whale at the end: Many of our lawyers have asked us whether we intend [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 9, 2009
Most offices of London’s Norton Rose have approved a flexible hours scheme first announced in March. The firm hopes to avoid redundancies by reducing hours. The scheme has been approved by 19 of the firm’s 21 international offices. Norton Rose is still working to make the plan comply with the law in France and Germany. London lawyers and [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 24, 2009
District of Columbia Attorney General Peter Nickles is amending a flexible hours plan for attorneys, and the American Federation of Government Employees, Local 1403 is challenging the move. Since it was put into place in 2005 by DC’s then-Attorney General Robert J. Spagnoletti, lawyers can take one day off a week if they make up the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 13, 2009
Norton Rose may implement flexible hours scheme to help avoid job cuts. For one year, Norton Rose employees (including partners) would choose between a four-day week, a paid sabbatical of four to 12 weeks, or both. Employees would earn 85% of their salary for the four-day week, while the sabbatical option would be paid out at 30% [...]
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