Miller & Chevalier

It's a Fact!

New moms get 18 weeks maternity leave to bond with their babies.

What We Love

This firm understands how small but critical decisions can have a huge impact on job satisfaction and productivity. Exhibit A: Kitty Wach, the firm’s pro bono counsel and mother of five who needed to leave work in the middle of the day to shuttle her son between a tutor and school. Leaving work and coming back wasn’t the issue; finding a parking spot in busy downtown Washington, DC, was. Kitty explained the situation to human resources and got a solution within a day—a space in the firm’s parking lot, normally reserved for more senior attorneys.

Female equity partners: 18%*

Female counsel: 40%

Female associates: 55%

Female lawyers promoted to equity partner, 2004–2008: 19%

Lawyers working reduced hours: 7%

Lawyers working reduced hours, 2004–2008: 8%

Weeks paid maternity leave: 18

Weeks paid paternity leave: 3

Weeks paid adoption leave: 12

Offer phase-back program for new moms?: No

Offer reentry program for lawyer moms?: No

Offer formal flextime program for associates & counsel?: No

Lawyers working flextime schedule: n/a

Offer support groups for reduced-hours lawyers?: Yes

*Law firm does not offer nonequity partnership.