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 |