No Shame On These Biglaw Firms XX: Working Mother's 50 Best Law Firms for Women

Working Mother magazine has released its annual review of law firms and named the 50 Best Law Firms for Women. No shame on these firms (unlike the one in our caption contest), at least when it comes to “flex-time, reduced-hour and other family-friendly policies”:

[O]ur winning firms have more lawyers working reduced hours (8 percent versus 5 percent nationwide) and also employ more female equity partners, who share in their firm’s profits (20 percent versus 16 percent nationwide)–and that’s just for starters. We salute these firms for recognizing that making the legal profession work for women is good business for everyone.

As pointed out by the ABA Journal:

A bad economy may be hurting law firms, but it’s opening up more flex-time opportunities for male as well as female lawyers.

Only one firm from the top five most prestigious — as ranked by Vault last year — made the cut.


Of Vault’s top five most prestigious firms, only Davis Polk was ranked female-friendly by Working Mother. Here’s the full list from the Working Mother press release (via ABA Journal):

The 2009 Working Mother & Flex-Time Lawyers Best Law Firms for Women
Firm; Location – Number of Lawyers in the Firm

Alston & Bird; Atlanta, Ga. – 933
Andrews Kurth; Houston, Texas – 425
Arent Fox; Washington, D.C. – 340
Bass, Berry & Sims; Nashville, Tenn. – 254
Chapman and Cutler; Chicago, Ill. – 225
Covington & Burling; Washington, D.C. – 771
Davis Polk & Wardwell; New York, N.Y. – 680
Debevoise & Plimpton; New York, N.Y. – 570
Dorsey & Whitney; Minneapolis, Minn. – 623
Drinker Biddle & Reath; Philadelphia, Pa. – 687
Foley Hoag; Boston, MA – 250
Folger Levin & Kahn; San Francisco, Calif. – 61
Fox Rothschild; Philadelphia, Pa. – 466
Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz; New York, N.Y. – 57
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson; New York, N.Y. – 539
Frost Brown Todd; Cincinnati, Ohio – 376
Gibbons P.C.; Newark, N.J. – 230
Goodwin Procter; Boston, Mass. – 941
Gray Plant Mooty Law Firm; Minneapolis, Minn. – 165
Hanson Bridgett; San Francisco, Calif. – 162
Holland & Hart; Denver, Colo. – 441
Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn; Detroit, Mich. – 239
Ice Miller; Indianapolis, Ind. – 260
Jenner & Block; Chicago, Ill. – 484
Katten Muchin Rosenman; Chicago, Ill. – 653
Latham & Watkins; Global. – 1,714
Lindquist & Vennum; Minneapolis, Minn. – 187
Littler Mendelson; San Francisco, Calif. – 722
Lowenstein Sandler; Roseland, N.J. – 276
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips; Los Angeles, Calif. – 389
McGuireWoods; Richmond, Va. – 854
Miller & Chevalier Chartered; Washington, D.C. – 96
Morrison & Foerster; New York, N.Y. – 976
Munger, Tolles & Olson; Los Angeles, Calif. – 219
Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg; Chicago, Ill. – 199
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe; New York, N.Y. – 815
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; New York, N.Y. – 530
Perkins Coie; Chicago, Ill. – 720
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman; San Francisco, Calif. – 929
Quarles & Brady; Phoenix, Ariz. – 499
Shook, Hardy & Bacon; Kansas City, Mo. – 511
Sidley Austin; Chicago, Ill. – 1,598
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett; New York, N.Y. – 821
Smith Moore Leatherwood; Greenville, S.C. – 181
Steptoe & Johnson; Washington, D.C. – 465
Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox; Washington, D.C. – 99
Vinson & Elkins; Houston, Texas – 704
Weil, Gotshal & Manges; New York, N.Y. – 1,394
WilmerHale; Boston, Mass. – 1,085
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati; New York, N.Y. – 670

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