Flex-Time
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Biglaw
Biglaw Firm 'Outs' All Of Its Flextime Attorneys On Its Website
This is unnecessary, and it could do a huge disservice to a worthwhile work/life balance initiative. -
Biglaw, Perks / Fringe Benefits
Biglaw Associates Offered Work/Life Balance Perks That Go Unused
Are lawyers afraid that they'll be penalized in the future if they take advantage of these reduced-hours policies? - Sponsored
Referral Fees The Key To Growing A Modern Practice? Overture Thinks So.
Overture digitizes your existing attorney networks and makes it easy to share referrals and ethically split fees with attorneys you already trust. -
Biglaw, Kids
Biglaw Mommy: Share And Share Alike
Would job-sharing be better in Biglaw for working mothers over flex-time arrangements?
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.27.15
* It’s summer associate season in Biglaw, so here are some tips to help you not completely screw up your futures. (But if you do catch someone misbehaving, make sure to send your friends here at ATL a tip.) [MoneyBeat / Wall Street Journal]
* Break out the vuvuzelas, because Loretta Lynch just scored herself a gigantic GOOOOAAAALLLL!!!! Several of FIFA’s top officials were arrested in Switzerland for extradition to America to face federal corruption charges over years of alleged racketeering and wire fraud. [New York Times]
* “Not all the evidence that you hear and see will be riveting.” The Dewey & LeBoeuf financial crimes trial may be sexy for Biglaw aficianados, but at least one of the prosecutors on the case had the courtesy to warn jurors they’d be bored. [Am Law Daily]
* Which Biglaw firms are the best places for new fathers to work? According to a recent report from Fatherly, a digital parenting resource for men, Arnold & Porter, Alston & Bird, and Baker Donelson all have pretty nice paternity leave policies. [Nooga.com; Fatherly]
* At some law firms, working part-time or on a flexible schedule isn’t necessarily a career killer for women, but that doesn’t change the fact that at other firms, doing so means that “they’re no longer on that partnership/management track.”[Crain’s Chicago Business]
* Daniel Meltzer, Story Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, former Principal Deputy Counsel to President Obama, and federal courts scholar, RIP. [Legal Theory Blog]
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Partner Issues, Women's Issues
Biglaw Mommy: Let's Track Some Changes, Shall We?
Mommy Dear, Esq. can write column after column talking about ways to help working mothers, but if the boss doesn’t want to help, there’s not much she can do. -
Biglaw, Kids, Women's Issues
Biglaw Mommy: The Case for Flex-Time
Maybe we should all embrace a bit more flexibility, and cut the working moms a little slack.