17% of all women promoted at Katten Muchin Rosenman last year worked part-time.

This Chicago-based law firm was founded 25 years ago as an alternative to fussy, traditional legal environments—and it remains proudly progressive today. While some firms discourage parents from taking time off, this one gives primary caregivers three fully paid months to spend with a newborn or newly adopted child and adds another paid month for employees who’ve been with the firm five years. Hourly workers receive six fully paid weeks off. And to keep dedicated attorneys from stressing while on leave, the firm reduces their billable-hour targets so quotas are the furthest thing from their minds. Subsidized backup care, once available only to those at headquarters and in New York City, has just been expanded to include 200 centers nationwide, with in-home backup provided for both well and sick children and for elders who need personal attention.

National Managing Partner: Vincent Sergi

Partner: Tara Kamradt

Women managers/execs: 33%

Women among top earners: 8%

Women on board of directors: 17%

Women corporate executive hires in 2008: 14%

Women participating in management or leadership training in the past year: 100%

Women participating in formalized executive succession planning last year: N/A

Women promoted last year who utilized a formal flexible work arrangement: 17%

Formal compensation policies reward managers who help women advance: No