Real men put their careers on hold for babies. At some of the most profitable and hard-driving law firms in the nation, paid paternity leave for new dads, ranging from two to 10 weeks, is now the norm, a perk as basic as a shiny BlackBerry.More striking is that men under 40 - even those with partnership aspirations - aren't hesitating to take the leave, according to interviews with lawyers at nearly a dozen firms. At Kirkland & Ellis, 78 men at the 1,300-lawyer firm took paternity leave in 2007. About 50 of them took four-and-a-half weeks, says partner Jay Lefkowitz, a member of the firm's management committee. He notes that the firm now offers six weeks of paid paternity leave and that "the numbers [of people taking the leave] have been increasing".
July 17, 2008 at 12:33 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Legalweek
Generational shifts mean making babies and making partner are no longer mutually exclusive in modern firms, finds Vivia Chen
Real men put their careers on hold for babies. At some of the most profitable and hard-driving law firms in the nation, paid paternity leave for new dads, ranging from two to 10 weeks, is now the norm, a perk as basic as a shiny BlackBerry.
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