Pregnancy / Paternity
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2008 Year in Review, Kids, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Pregnancy / Paternity
Top Biglaw Stories of 2008: #5 (Business)
We’re doing a series of “2008 in Review” posts here at ATL. We’ve previously declared a Lawyer of the Year, as well as two three Law Students of the Year. We will now announce what we view as the year’s ten biggest stories in law-firm land. We’ve divided them into two groups: the top five […] -
Layoffs, Pregnancy / Paternity, Reader Polls
Shinyung Oh Has Left the Building(And a pair of opinion polls)
If you’re tired of reading about Shinyung Oh, the former Paul Hastings associate who sent a now-famous farewell email, fear not. The story is on its last legs. We just wanted to tie up a loose end. Earlier this week, we wondered about whether she was still at Paul Hastings. Here’s the answer, courtesy of […] - Sponsored
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Biglaw, Email Scandals, Holy Crap, Pregnancy / Paternity
Breaking: A Dramatic Farewell Email
And proof of Paul Hastings layoffs.
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Pregnancy / Paternity
Biglaw Perk Watch: WilmerHale and O'Melveny & Myers to 18 Weeks
A few more firms have joined the 18 Week Club. New and improved parental leave policies, from WilmerHale and O’Melveny & Myers, appear after the jump. We admit we can be a little idiosyncratic in terms of which firms’ announcements we highlight. For more comprehensive information, check out Justin Bernold’s handy-dandy, continually updated tables of […] -
Biglaw, Blackberry-Crackberry, Kids, Layoffs, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Pregnancy / Paternity
What's Up at Milbank Tweed?(Parental leave, for one thing.)
Despite the recent turmoil in the economy and the stock market, all appears to be well at Milbank Tweed Hadley McCloy. A tipster provided us with the highlights of chairman Mel Immergut’s “State of the Firm” address from last week: 1. Primary caregiver leave is now 18 weeks paid. 2. Blackberries will get replaced every […] -
Job Survey, Kids, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Pregnancy / Paternity
Featured Survey Results: Paternity Leave
Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve posted four sets of results from last month’s ATL / Lateral Link survey on leave and part-time arrangements: • your thoughts on whether you would rather work fewer hours for less pay, • a running table of firms’ paid maternity leave policies (mirrored here), • a breakdown of […] -
Job Survey, Kids, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Pregnancy / Paternity
Featured Job Survey: What About The Children?
So far, we’ve posted three sets of results from last week’s ATL / Lateral Link survey on leave and part-time arrangements: • your thoughts on whether you would rather work fewer hours for less pay, • a running table of firms’ paid maternity leave policies (mirrored here and updated today to add King & Spalding), […] -
Job Survey, Kids, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Pregnancy / Paternity
Featured Job Survey: Updated Leave and Flexible Schedules
Results are still flowing in from last week’s ATL / Lateral Link survey on leave and part-time arrangements. So far, we’re up to almost 700 responses, and we have received quite a few tips about maternity leave. The running table of firms’ paid maternity leave policies that we posted yesterday has now been updated to […] - Sponsored
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Job Survey, Kids, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Pregnancy / Paternity
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 […] -
Biglaw, Kids, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Pregnancy / Paternity
Biglaw Perk Watch: Mayer Brown Matches 18 Weeks
These announcements aren’t the most exciting things to read (or report on). But we’ve spoken to a number of associates and law students, especially women, who follow them closely. So we’ll continue posting them (and they’re easy to skip over anyway). The latest law firm to improve its parental leave policy is Mayer Brown. Check […] -
Job Survey, Kids, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Pregnancy / Paternity
Featured Job Survey: Is Your Firm Family Friendly?
This blog has posted several entries over the last few months, and even this morning, about law firms updating their parental leave policies. That’s a great trend in the industry, but there’s probably not an associate pirate out there who doesn’t still get at least a call a week from associates who want to go […] -
Biglaw, Kids, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Pregnancy / Paternity
Biglaw Perk Watch: Debevoise & Plimpton to 18 Weeks
Biglaw is becoming kinder and gentler. The number of large law firms enhancing their parental leave policies continues to grow. The latest to join the club: Debevoise & Plimpton. From a (male) tipster: 18 weeks. Not bad. Of course, since I’m unlikely to give birth to a child anytime soon, I’ll have to be satisfied […] -
Alston & Bird, Arnold & Porter, Biglaw, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Pregnancy / Paternity, Rankings
Everyone's a Winner at These Five Law Firms
Congratulations to this quintet of five law firms, which just made Fortune magazine’s annual list of the 100 Best Companies To Work For (listed below in rank order): 19. Arnold & Porter: “Staffers get 12 weeks paid maternity leave and profit sharing of 7.5% of salary. The less you make, the less you pay for […]
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Arnold & Porter, Biglaw, Breasts, Food, Kids, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Pregnancy / Paternity
Biglaw Perk Watch: Good News for Parents, from Davis Polk and Arnold & Porter
Sometimes we wish we had the breastses. Then we could enjoy the luxurious lactation room at Davis Polk & Wardwell. Back in this post, we wrote about the lactation room at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. We’re sure it’s plenty nice. But we doubt it’s as snazzy as what the competition on the other side of […] -
Kids, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Pregnancy / Paternity
If Only They Were Biglaw Associates...
Birth leave sought for girls [Denver Post via Drudge Report] Earlier: Biglaw Perk Watch: Hogan & Hartson Announces Enhanced Leave for Childbirth and Adoption -
Kids, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Pregnancy / Paternity
Biglaw Perk Watch: S&C and Weil Also Up Parental Leave
We’ve previously reported on improved parental leave policies at Latham & Watkins, Davis Polk, and Simpson Thacher. We predicted that “with respect to maternity leave for birth mothers, 18 weeks will become the new ‘market rate.'” Perhaps it already is. Tipsters have written in to advise us that Sullivan & Cromwell and Weil Gosthal & […] -
Kids, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Pregnancy / Paternity
Biglaw Perk Watch: Latham & Watkins Expands Parental Leave
Earlier today, we alluded to a significant revamping of parental leave policy at Latham & Watkins. Now we’re happy to bring you the details. Under the earlier version of LW’s Parental Care Leave policy, associates were entitled to 12 weeks of maternity leave and up to four weeks of paternity leave. Today the firm announced […] -
Craigslist, Feminism, Gender, Job Searches, Pregnancy / Paternity
But What About the Dads?
A tipster drew our attention to this Craigslist posting, to which he appended a single line of commentary: “Discriminatory? Ha Ha.” It seems that only the title of the posting implicates motherhood. The main body of the listing refers to the candidate as “he or she,” and the job responsibilities do not require a maternal […] -
Biglaw, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Pregnancy / Paternity
Simpson Thacher Raises to... 18 Weeks!
We recently started a discussion about maternity leave policies at large law firms. Shortly thereafter, one such firm — Simpson Thacher & Bartlett — made changes to its maternity leave policy. From a tipster (and confirmed for us by James Cross, co-chair of the firm’s personnel committee): Simpson just announced a 50% increase in the […] -
Biglaw, Kids, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Pregnancy / Paternity
Biglaw Perk Watch: Maternity Leave and Paternity Leave
Despite all the Biglaw bitching from unhappy associates, it’s generally agreed that the perks of law firm life are pretty sweet. We continue our series of posts on the fringe benefits of Biglaw. From a reader: How about a post on (paid) maternity/paternity leave and part-time schedule policies? We already did a post on part-time […]