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BEST LAW FIRMS FOR 0WOMEN Sensible lawyer Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) was always the most balanced of the Sex and the City foursome. The hard-driving, Harvard-educated lawyer put in long hours to make partner, bought a swank condo and still had time for countless brunches with Carrie, Samantha and Charlotte. Miranda’s life was pretty much on track—that is, until she had a baby and watched her organized, fabulous existence swiftly unravel, leaving her little time even to brush her teeth. For real-life female lawyers, and millions of working moms in other high-pressure fields, balancing work and family may be the toughest part of the job. Law firms are starting to recognize the hard choices their female attorneys face. In this, our inaugural Working Mother & Flex-Time Lawyers Best Law Firms for Women list, we salute those firms with groundbreaking programs to help women strike a better work/life balance and climb to the top. Our winning firms have taken the lead in implementing penalty-free flex schedules and mentoring, networking and leadership programs. Despite these advances, there’s still work to be done. Though almost half of law school grads over the past 15 years have been women, they make up only 16 percent of equity partners (those who share in a firm’s profits). The good news is that our winning law firms prove that a dramatic shift in thinking, as well as in policies that benefit women, is under way and gaining momentum. Miranda would be proud. EDITED BY SUZANNE RISS, TERESA PALAGANO AND ANGELA EBRON PHOTOGRAPHED AT THE BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY; HAIR AND MAKEUP BY DINA KINION. PHOTOGRAPH BY ERICA BERGER STYLING BY STEPHANIE RYGORSKY www.workingmother.com • august/september 2007 | WORKING MOTHER 67 2007 BEST LAW FIRMS FOR WOMEN ALSTON & BIRD CHAPMAN AND CUTLER ECKERT SEAMANS CHERIN & MELLOTT Atlanta, GA • Corporate, intellectual Chicago, IL • Public finance, banking, Pittsburgh, PA • Litigation, counseling and property, litigation and tax counsel leasing and securities regulatory services Partners Equity 90 Partners †Equity 160 Nonequity 152 Partners Equity 77 Nonequity 50 Nonequity 60 Percentage of female Percentage of female partners Percentage of female partners partners Equity 12% Nonequity 22% Equity 13% Nonequity 19% Equity 17% Nonequity 22% FARELLA BRAUN + MARTEL ARMSTRONG TEASDALE COVINGTON & BURLING San Francisco, CA • Business transaction St. Louis, MO • Business and litigation Washington, DC • Corporate and services and commercial, civil and criminal services Partners Equity 100 regulatory counsel and litigation litigation Equity partners 65 Percentage Nonequity 17 Percentage of female Equity partners 167 Percentage of female equity partners 22% partners Equity 10% Nonequity 41% of female equity partners 20% FOLEY & LARDNER ARNOLD & PORTER CRAVATH, SWAINE & MOORE Milwaukee, WI • Intellectual property, Washington, DC • Litigation, transaction New York, NY • Corporate, litigation, corporate advisory, business and litigation and regulatory counsel Equity tax, trust and estate services services Equity partners 502 Percentage partners 240 Percentage of female Equity partners 93 Percentage of female equity partners 16% equity partners 19% of female equity partners 14% FOLGER LEVIN & KAHN* BAKER & DANIELS DEBEVOISE & PLIMPTON San Francisco, CA • Litigation and Indianapolis, IN • Business and litigation New York, NY • Mergers and acquisitions, transaction services Equity partners 37 services Partners Equity 106 capital markets, finance and litigation Percentage of female equity Nonequity 45 Percentage of female services Equity partners 143 partners 46% partners Equity 15% Nonequity 16% Percentage of female equity partners 14% GIBBONS BAKER & McKENZIE Newark, NJ • Business transaction, Chicago, IL • Corporate and regulatory DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO litigation and counseling services counsel and litigation Washington, DC • Litigation, advocacy Partners Equity 39 Nonequity 53 Partners Equity 194 Nonequity 137 and counseling services Percentage of female partners Percentage of female partners Partners Equity 107 Nonequity 35 Equity 21% Nonequity 17% Equity 15% Nonequity 28% Percentage of female partners Equity 15% Nonequity 31% HELLER EHRMAN BINGHAM McCUTCHEN San Francisco, CA • Litigation, business Boston, MA • Finance, corporate, DLA PIPER U.S. and intellectual property services securities and litigation services New York, NY • Corporate, litigation, Equity partners 240 Percentage Equity partners 353 Percentage real estate, intellectual property and of female equity partners 20% of female equity partners 21% government services Partners Equity 368 Nonequity 291 Percentage of female HOGAN & HARTSON BLACKWELL SANDERS partners Equity 13% Nonequity 23% Washington, DC • Business and finance, Kansas City, MO • Litigation and trans- litigation, government regulation and action services Partners Equity 78 DORSEY & WHITNEY* intellectual property services Nonequity 97 Percentage of female Minneapolis, MN • Corporate transactions Partners Equity 287 Nonequity 126 partners Equity 9% Nonequity 18% and litigation Partners Equity 218 Percentage of female partners Nonequity 29 Percentage of female Equity 17% Nonequity 29% BRYAN CAVE partners Equity 16% Nonequity 17% St. Louis, MO • Corporate, transaction HOLLAND & KNIGHT** and regulatory counsel and litigation DUANE MORRIS New York, NY • Litigation, business, Partners Equity 177 Nonequity 134 Philadelphia, PA • Corporate transactions, government and real estate counsel Percentage of female partners intellectual property services and litigation Partners Equity 334 Nonequity 322 DEBORAH HARDEE Equity 12% Nonequity 27% Partners Equity 157 Nonequity 186 Percentage of female partners Percentage of female partners Equity 10% Nonequity 24% Equity 11% Nonequity 30% *Managing partner is female **Chairperson is female † Equity partners share in profits; nonequity partners do not. CREDIT www.workingmother.com • august/septemberaugust/september 20072007 || WORKINGWORKING MOTHERMOTHER 0069 2007 BEST LAW FIRMS FOR WOMEN HOWREY McGUIREWOODS REED SMITH Washington, DC • Antitrust, intellectual Richmond, VA • Commercial litigation and Pittsburgh, PA • Transaction, litigation property, business litigation and corporate services and regulatory services counseling services Partners Equity 122 Partners Equity 188 Nonequity 161 Partners Equity 196 Nonequity 241 Nonequity 102 Percentage of female Percentage of female partners Percentage of female partners partners Equity 12% Nonequity 33% Equity 12% Nonequity 22% Equity 16% Nonequity 22% HUNTON & WILLIAMS MILLER & CHEVALIER** SIDLEY AUSTIN Richmond, VA • Transaction, litigation Washington, DC • Tax, employee benefits, Chicago, IL • Transaction, litigation and and regulatory services government affairs and litigation services regulatory services Equity partners 566 Equity partners 335 Percentage Partners Equity 51 Nonequity 6 Percentage of female equity of female equity partners 16% Percentage of female partners partners 19% Equity 22% Nonequity 0% ICE MILLER SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE, Indianapolis, IN • Business, employee MINTZ LEVIN COHN FERRIS MEAGHER & FLOM benefits, labor law, litigation, public GLOVSKY AND POPEO New York, NY • Mergers and acquisitions finance and real estate services Boston, MA • Corporate, health and securities services and litigation Equity partners 115 Percentage sciences, intellectual property and Equity partners 369 Percentage of female equity partners 28% litigation services Partners Equity 71 of female equity partners 18% Nonequity 135 Percentage of female KATTEN MUCHIN ROSENMAN partners Equity 11% Nonequity 21% SONNENSCHEIN NATH & ROSENTHAL Chicago, IL • Corporate, litigation, real es- Chicago, IL • Litigation, corporate, tate and financial services MORRISON & FOERSTER* real estate and intellectual property Partners Equity 150 Nonequity 159 San Francisco, CA • Litigation, services Partners Equity 168 Percentage of female partners finance and technology services Nonequity 198 Percentage of female Equity 14% Nonequity 35% Equity partners 318 Percentage partners Equity 15% Nonequity 29% of female equity partners 19% KING & SPALDING WHITE & CASE Atlanta, GA • Corporate, financial, regula- ORRICK, HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE New York, NY • Cross-border transactions, tory and intellectual property services New York, NY • Transaction, finance and international arbitration and litigation and litigation Partners Equity 150 litigation services Equity partners 241 Partners Equity 160 Nonequity 35 Nonequity 103 Percentage of female Percentage of female equity Percentage of female partners partners Equity 11% Nonequity 28% partners 17% Equity 10% Nonequity 20% KIRKLAND & ELLIS PATTON BOGGS WILMERHALE Chicago, IL • Litigation, corporate, Washington, DC • Lobbying, transaction Washington, DC • Business and intellectual property, restructuring and and litigation services Partners Equity 115 regulatory counsel and litigation tax services Partners Equity 212 Nonequity 87 Percentage of female Equity partners 321 Percentage STEWART SHINING/ART AND COMMERCE Nonequity 333 Percentage of female partners Equity 14% Nonequity 24% of female equity partners 19% partners Equity 8% Nonequity 27% PAUL, WEISS, RIFKIND, WHARTON WOMBLE CARLYLE SANDRIDGE & RICE KIRKPATRICK & LOCKHART & GARRISON Winston-Salem, NC • Litigation, banking, PRESTON GATES ELLIS New York, NY • Corporate, litigation, real estate and intellectual property services Pittsburgh, PA • Corporate, financial, bankruptcy, real estate and tax services Partners Equity 166 Nonequity 83 intellectual property,