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

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Women occupy leadership roles at all levels of this Chicago-based seven-office firm, and today’s firm leaders, both men and women, actively promote the women leaders of tomorrow. For example, in...

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel

Behind a pledged commitment to the retention and promotion of women at this New York City–based firm, three out of five lawyers promoted to partner in 2010 were women. All associates have access to...

Latham & Watkins

The culture at this global firm, with ten offices in the United States and 20 offices worldwide, is collegial, and the management style is consensus based. Recognizing the value of teamwork, the firm...

Lindquist & Vennum

This Minneapolis-based firm provides leadership opportunities for its women attorneys through its Millennia Leaders program, which offers intensive leadership training for women followed by monthly...

Littler Mendelson

This San Francisco–based 50-office firm launched the Women’s Leadership Initiative in 2008 to ensure that women attorneys achieve positions of power and influence. The aim of this program, led by...

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips

A flexible, progressive approach informs this Los Angeles–based firm’s forward-thinking programs. Women lawyers report a highly hospitable environment where they are able to set their own schedules,...

McGuireWoods

The firm supports its women lawyers through a variety of initiatives, ranging from new, firm-wide rainmaker training exclusively for women to generous parental-leave benefits. The Richmond, VA–based...

Morrison & Foerster

Women hold key leadership positions at this San Francisco–based 15-office firm: A woman is managing partner, and a woman is chair of the committee that decides equity partnership. Not only does the...

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg

Since its inception in 1986, this Chicago-based one-office firm has had attorneys working reduced hours, and by 2010, 35% of women attorneys and 43% of women partners were taking advantage of the...

Nilan Johnson Lewis

Women regularly comprise the majority at this Minneapolis-based firm, where 52% of all the attorneys are women, and women hold four out of five of the firm’s senior administrative roles. Last year,...

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe

This New York City–based 24-office firm created a diversity committee back in 1990, one of the first in a major law firm, and in 2003 created a Women’s Initiative to focus exclusively on women’s...

Paul Hastings

This Los Angeles–based firm maintains high standards in leadership diversity: Women fill nearly 30% of firm management positions, and two of the five lawyers deciding equity partners are women. In...

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

Almost half of the counsel at this New York City–based firm are women, and women may well pass the 50% mark soon. As part of the firm’s ongoing efforts to promote the advancement of its female...