2011 NAFE/Flex-Time Lawyers Best Law Firms for Women List

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This Washington, DC–based firm takes a progressive approach to its flexible working arrangements. Lawyers choosing a reduced-hours schedule are able to work 80% or less of the standard required...

Baker & McKenzie

Telecommuting is very much a part of this Chicago-based firm’s approach to work life balance. Just ask Liz Stern, a partner at the firm’s Washington, DC, office, who works full-time but telecommutes...

Ballard Spahr

Aware that an increasing number of clients place a high priority on diversity in their legal counsel, this Philadelphia-based firm has actively initiated several programs to retain and promote women...

Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff

This six-office firm with headquarters in Cleveland is committed to providing innovative and personalized work arrangements for its women attorneys. Last year 20% of them—both associates and partners...

Chapman and Cutler

It’s always comforting to know your boss has your back. Tim Mohan, the chief executive partner at this Chicago-based firm, makes work life balance a personal as well as a business imperative. His...

Covington & Burling

A champion of alternative work schedules, this Washington, DC–based firm has a special alternative-schedule advisor in each of its eight offices, and associates working flexible schedules are...

Debevoise & Plimpton

Part of the lore of this New York City–based firm, founded in 1931, is its long history of supporting women. Its part-time-work program has been in place for more than 40 years, and in 1995, for the...

Dorsey & Whitney

Women are thriving across the board at this 100-year-old Minneapolis-based firm, which boasts a female managing partner—one of only a handful of women in the country leading top law practices. Of the...

Drinker Biddle & Reath

Not only is this Philadelphia-based firm committed to allowing each lawyer to create her own career path to success through flexible work arrangements, but also, last year, Drinker Biddle converted...

Faegre & Benson

This Minneapolis-based firm has women in every leadership role—as members of the management committee, group head, administrative partner and committee chair. Some of this can be attributed to the...

Farella Braun + Martel

This two-office San Francisco–based firm is dedicated to creating a nonstigmatized flex program, and reduced-hours attorneys are treated as full participants. Indeed, flexibility is ingrained in the...

Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner

Women have a prominent voice at this Washington, DC–based firm, which is led by a female managing partner. More than half of the firm’s practice group leaders are women, and the nine-member...

Fox Rothschild

From the start of lawyers’ careers at this Philadelphia-based firm, processes are in place to help women thrive professionally. A formal mentor program assigns each incoming associate a more senior...