{"id":30066,"date":"2024-03-13T13:43:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T17:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/?p=1042803"},"modified":"2024-03-13T13:43:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T17:43:10","slug":"biglaws-parental-leave-backslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/legal-innovation-center\/2024\/03\/13\/biglaws-parental-leave-backslide\/","title":{"rendered":"Biglaw&#8217;s Parental Leave Backslide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-477916\" src=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/09\/gay-dads-LGBT-fathers-with-kids-children-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"gay dads LGBT fathers with kids children\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Are law firms going to get stingy with parental leave? While most firms report solid revenue, sparking resentment over a few weeks of leave seems like a weird strategy, but <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2024\/03\/dla-piper-parental-leave\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DLA Piper recently cut back on the leave available to non-birthing parents<\/a>. It&#8217;s a first as far as Above the Law can tell, but will it be the last? Also, <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2024\/03\/supreme-court-accidentally-forgets-to-delete-basic-metadata-in-trump-ballot-ruling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Supreme Court screwed up its metadata<\/a>, committing an error that would get junior associates fired. And finally, Joe Biden offered the Court some tough talk&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2024\/03\/joe-biden-stares-down-supreme-court-as-he-quotes-dobbs-back-at-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by quoting them<\/a>.<\/p>\n<iframe border=\"0\" class=\"shortcode_iframe\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/legaltalknetwork.com\/podcasts\/thinking-like-a-lawyer\/2024\/03\/biglaws-parental-leave-backslide\/?embed\" width=\"100%\"height=\"115\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">Parental leave and a bumbling Supreme Court highlight the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":477916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3176],"tags":[102,2306,459,448,7,7262],"class_list":["post-30066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-biglaw","tag-courts","tag-podcasts","tag-supreme-court","tag-technology","tag-thinking-like-a-lawyer-podcast"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - 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