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“Everything the firm could do to make it easier to juggle everything, they have done,” Feng added. “The main thing is the independence they give all the individuals to set their own schedules.”
Washington, D.C.-based Arnold & Porter, which Working Mother notes is run by a female executive director and offers a full-time, on-site day care facility, was named to the magazine’s list for the seventh time.
It was something new, though, for Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, the first mention it’s gotten since 2005 when it merged under that name, a spokesman for the firm said.
The market for measuring female-friendliness appears to be growing, too. Henry says that Flex-Time plans to release a survey next fall in cooperation with Working Mother that will, more specifically, rank the woman-friendliness of law firms with more than 50 lawyers.
� Petra Pasternak