Featured Survey Results: Maternity Leave
Yesterday, we posted some preliminary results from last week’s ATL / Lateral Link survey on leave and part-time arrangements. Today, we’re going to get a little bit deeper into the maternity leave data.
We now have more than 600 responses, and roughly three-fifths of respondents have reported that their firms offer twelve weeks of paid maternity leave. Another 17% of respondents are at firms that have adopted an eighteen-week leave policy. Since some of you have been clamoring for charts (and others have been less enthusiastic), a chart showing the overall breakdown of responses is here.
Of course, the number of responses and the number of firms are different animals, so today we’re going to start a running table of firms’ paid maternity leave policies. Check it out, after the jump.
Some of this data is from the survey (which you can still take), and some is from tips, firm websites or other public sources. If details about your firm are missing (or wrong), please send us a tip.
Paid Maternity Leave Policies By Firm
Firm | Paid Maternity Leave |
Akin Gump | 18 weeks* |
Alston & Bird | 12 weeks |
Andrews Kurth | 18 weeks* |
Arnall Golden Gregory | 12 weeks |
Arnold & Porter | 18 weeks |
Baker & McKenzie | 16 weeks |
Baker Botts | 12 weeks |
Bingham | 12 weeks |
Blank Rome | 12 weeks |
Buchanan Ingersoll | 12 weeks |
Cadwalader | 18 weeks |
Cahill Gordon | 12 weeks |
Cleary Gottlieb | 18 weeks |
Clifford Chance | 12 weeks |
Cooley Godward | 18 weeks |
Covington & Burling | 18 weeks |
Crowell & Moring | 18 weeks |
Davis Polk | 18 weeks |
Day Pitney | 12 weeks |
Debevoise & Plimpton | 18 weeks |
Dechert | 12 weeks |
Dewey & LeBoeuf | 18 weeks |
DLA Piper | 12 weeks |
Drinker Biddle & Reeth | 12 weeks** |
Fenwick & West | 12 weeks |
Finnegan Henderson | 18 weeks |
Freshfields | 12 weeks** |
Fried Frank | 14 weeks |
Fulbright & Jaworski | 12 weeks |
Gibbons PC | 12 weeks |
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher | 12 weeks |
Goodwin Procter | 12 weeks |
Greenberg Traurig | 12 weeks |
Heller Ehrman | 12 weeks |
Hogan & Hartson | 18 weeks |
Holland & Knight | 12 weeks |
Howrey | 12 weeks |
Hughes Hubbard & Reed | 12 weeks |
Hunton & Williams | 12 weeks |
Jenner & Block | 18 weeks |
Jones Day | 12 weeks |
K&L Gates | 12 weeks |
Kaye Scholer | 12 weeks |
King & Spalding | 12 weeks |
Kirkland & Ellis | 16 weeks |
Kramer Levin | 18 weeks |
Latham & Watkins | 18 weeks |
Lowenstein Sandler | 12 weeks |
Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps | 12 weeks |
Mayer Brown | 18 weeks |
McDermott Will & Emery | 12 weeks |
Milbank Tweed | 18 weeks |
Morgan Lewis & Bockius | 12 weeks |
Morrison & Foerster | 18 weeks |
Nixon Peabody | 4 weeks |
O’Melveny & Myers | 18 weeks* |
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe | 18 weeks |
Patterson Belknap | 18 weeks |
Paul Hastings | 14 weeks |
Paul Weiss | 18 weeks |
Phillips Lytle | 6 weeks |
Proskauer Rose | 18 weeks |
Quinn Emanuel | 16 weeks |
Ropes & Gray | 18 weeks |
Saul Ewing | 12 weeks |
Schulte Roth & Zabel | 18 weeks |
Sheppard Mullin | 12 weeks |
Sidley Austin | 12 weeks |
Simpson Thacher | 18 weeks |
Skadden | 18 weeks |
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan | 12 weeks |
Sullivan & Cromwell | 18 weeks |
Sullivan & Worcester | 12 weeks |
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan | 12 weeks |
Thelen Reid | 6 weeks*** |
Troutman Sanders | 12 weeks |
Venable | 12 weeks |
Vinson & Elkins | 12 weeks |
Weil | 18 weeks |
White & Case | 12 weeks |
Willkie Farr | 12 weeks |
WilmerHale | 18 weeks |
Wilson Elser | 8 weeks |
Winston & Strawn | 18 weeks |
Womble Carlyle | 12 weeks |
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*Also applies to the primary caregiver in the case of an adoption.
**In addition to 12 weeks of full paid leave, Freshfields and Drinker Biddle & Reeth permit associates to take another 12 weeks of leave at half pay.
***Thelen Reid provides six weeks of paid primary caregiver leave plus an additional disability leave for childbirth as approved by the insurance provider (usually six weeks).
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Justin Bernold is a Director at Lateral Link, the sponsor of this survey.