Best Firms for Women
The results are in. Working Mother Magazine and Flex-Time Lawyers have released their second annual report on the top 50 best law firms for women. As I've written in the past, I do believe that rankings should be kept in perspective. Large law firms are complex institutions that offer many different realities to individual attorneys (i.e. depending on which office you work in, which department you work for, what deals or litigation matters you get staffed on, how busy your practice area may be, the personalities of the partners you report to, etc.)
Over time, look for the firms that appear on these lists year after year. Appearing once means something. Appearing consistently is worth noting.
Labels: flexible legal work, women in the law, work life balance
posted by Stephen Seckler, Esq. at 9:56 AM
1 Comments:
I agree about keeping things in perspective. These rankings are based on what law firms report about themselves, which can be very different from what their lawyers would say about them. Moreover, many law firms chose not to participate because the very lengthy questionnaire can take weeks to fill out -- this means that some deserving firms aren't included. I question the usefulness of this list -- it may cause some firms to rest on their laurels that really have no laurels to rest on, and it can mislead female job seekers who later become dissatisfied former associates when the reality doesn't match up. That would be most unfortunate, because it would perpetuate the idea that women just leave law firms, so they aren't worth investing in (which just makes them leave law firms).
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