Family Leave and Related Policies by Firm

Family Leave and Related Policies by Firm

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Firm Weeks Primary Caregiver Leave Weeks Family Leave Flex &/or Reduced Hours Sabbaticals Tech Stipends Subsidized backup care/emergency dependent care Telecommuting Mentoring Adoption Aid
Average 16.663 6.455 87.5% Yes 25% Yes 31.25% Yes 72.4% Yes 56.25% Yes 53.75% Yes 31.25% Yes
Akerman Senterfitt 12 yes yes No
Allen & Overy 18 4 yes yes No
Alston & Bird 12 2.5 yes yes yes Yes ($7.5K)
Arent Fox 6 yes yes yes yes
Arnold & Porter 18 6 yes yes yes yes yes Yes ($5K)
Baker & Hostetler 12 6 yes Yes ($5K)
Baker & McKenzie 18 6 yes yes yes yes yes yes ($10K)
Baker Botts 12 12 yes yes yes
Bennett Jones 20 yes no
Boies, Schiller & Flexner 12 4 yes yes No
Brown Rudnick 18 4 yes yes yes yes yes No
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 19 4 yes yes yes yes yes yes Yes ($2K)
Cahill Gordon & Reindel 18 4 yes yes yes yes yes yes
Chapman and Cutler 16 4 yes yes yes yes No
Clifford Chance 18 2 yes No
Cooley 20 10 yes yes yes yes
Cravath 18 12 yes yes yes yes
Crowell & Moring 15 2 yes yes Yes
Debevoise & Plimpton 18 10 yes yes yes yes No
Dechert 18 4 yes yes yes yes yes No
Dickstein Shapiro 18 6 yes yes yes No
DLA Piper 18 16 yes yes yes
Dorsey & Whitney 14 8 yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
Dykema 12 yes yes
Epstein Becker & Green 12 2 yes No
Faegre Baker & Daniels 14 8 yes yes yes yes yes yes Yes ($5K)
Fenwick & West Minimum of 22 weeks, maximum of 29 (associate pregnancy leave) 16 (non-birthing parents) yes yes yes yes yes no
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunne 18 6 yes yes No
Fish & Richardson 16 8 yes yes yes yes No
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 20 (Fried Frank does not have a primary caregiver leave and provides a gender neutral policy for all attorneys and business services professionals. Under the policy, the birthing parents are also entitled to an additional 8 weeks of childbirth related leave, raising their total leave to 20 weeks) 12 (Additionally, all attorneys and business services professionals receive 10 weeks for NY Paid Family Leave, which Fried Frank has extended to its DC office) yes yes yes yes yes yes
Gibbons 12 yes yes No
Greenberg Traurig 12 6 yes No
Haynes and Boone 12 4 yes No
Hogan Lovells 20 weeks (The number reflected is the equivalent time a child bearing parent would receive at Hogan Lovells. Our parental leave policies are gender neutral and no longer contain caregiver designations) 12 weeks for all attorneys yes no no Yes (on-site emergency daycare center in DC and Back Childcare Advantage program through Bright Horizons for all other offices) yes yes yes (up to $5K per adoption; $10K lifetime max)
Holland & Hart 14 7 yes yes yes yes No
Holland & Knight 16 6 yes yes yes yes Yes
Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn 12 4 yes yes yes
Hunton & Williams 18 2 yes yes yes yes yes yes Yes ($5K)
Jenner & Block 18 6 yes yes yes No
K&L Gates 12 12 yes yes Yes
Katten Muchin Rosenman 14 4 yes yes yes yes yes yes No
Kaye Scholer 18 4
Kilpatrick Townsend 12
King & Spalding 12 0 No
Kirkland & Ellis 18 10 yes yes yes yes no
Latham & Watkins 18 4 yes yes yes yes yes No
Linklaters 18 4 yes yes yes yes yes No
Littler Mendelson 16 yes yes
Locke Lord 8 No
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips 12 4 yes yes yes yes yes No
Mayer Brown 18 6 yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
McDermott 18 4 yes no no yes yes yes no
McKenna Long & Aldridge 8 4 yes No
Moore & Van Allen 14 4 yes yes yes yes No
Morgan Lewis 16 12 Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Munger Tolles & Olson 16 12 yes yes yes yes Yes
Nixon Peabody LLP 18 10 yes yes yes yes yes
Orrick 22
Paul Hastings 18 yes yes yes yes
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison 18 12 yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
Perkins Coie 18 4 yes yes yes yes yes yes Yes
Proskauer Rose 18 4 yes yes yes Yes ($5K)
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan 16 2 No
Reed Smith 16 10 yes yes Yes
Ropes & Gray 18 4 yes yes yes yes Yes
Schiff Hardin 18 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Schulte Roth & Zabel 18 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Shook, Hardy & Bacon 14 Yes Yes Yes Yes
Sidley Austin 18 Yes Yes Yes No
Squire Patton Boggs 18
Sullivan & Cromwell 18 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Thompson Coburn 1 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Troutman Sanders 18 Yes Yes yes yes Yes Yes
Venable 18 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Vinson & Elkins 18 12 yes yes yes yes No
Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis 12 yes No
Weil, Gotshal & Manges 18 10 yes yes yes No
Weil, Gotshal & Manges 18 10 yes yes yes No
White & Case 20 (8 weeks Disability Leave, 12 weeks New Parent Leave) 12 yes yes yes yes Yes
Williams & Connolly 18 yes yes Yes
Willkie Farr & Gallagher 18 4 yes yes yes
WilmerHale 18 14 yes yes yes yes No
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 18 Yes Yes Yes No
Winston & Strawn 20 20 yes yes yes yes Yes

Non-updated Firms (per original 2008 ATL survey)

Firm Weeks Matenity Leave
Akin Gump 18
Andrews Kurth 18
Arnall Golden Gregory 12
Blank Rome 12
Buchanan Ingersoll 12
Cleary Gottlieb 18
Covington & Burling 18
Davis Polk 18
Day Pitney 12
Drinker Biddle & Reeth 12
Fenwick & West 12
Freshfields 12
Fried Frank 14
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 12
Goodwin Procter 12
Hughes Hubbard & Reed 12
Jones Day 12
Kramer Levin 18
Lowenstein Sandler 12
Mayer Brown 18
McDermott Will & Emery 12
Milbank Tweed 18
Morgan Lewis & Bockius 12
Morrison & Foerster 18
O’Melveny & Myers 18
Patterson Belknap 18
Paul Hastings 14
Paul Weiss 18
Saul Ewing 12
Schulte Roth & Zabel 18
Sheppard Mullin 12
Sidley Austin 12
Simpson Thacher 18
Skadden 18
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan 12
Sullivan & Cromwell 18
Sullivan & Worcester 12
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan 12
Troutman Sanders 12
Venable 12
White & Case 12
Wilson Elser 8