“As law firms emerge from the economic downturn, we are delighted to see in the 2011 Best Law Firms for Women initiative that firms are poised to address not just retaining women but also empowering them through leadership, promotion and power. We applaud these firms’ efforts to improve the status of women in the profession. We encourage firms to focus on making the work environment more hospitable and one in which women can gain parity in pay, credit origination, equity partner representation and leadership.”
—Deborah Epstein Henry, founder and president, Flex-Time Lawyers

Flex-Time Lawyers (flextimelawyers.com) is a national consulting firm founded by Deborah Epstein Henry in the late 1990s, providing advisory, training and speaking services on workplace restructuring, talent management, work life balance and the retention and promotion of lawyers, with a focus on women. The consulting services are provided to law firms, in-house legal departments, professional service firms, corporations, bar associations, law schools, individual lawyers, law students and professionals in industries outside of law.