A Yale Law School group has identified its top 10 law firms for gender equity and family friendliness, giving kudos to Dechert and Reed Smith in the latter category while still finding plenty of room for improvement in Big Law overall.

Yale Law Women, a group dedicated to the advancement of women at the university and in the profession, surveyed more than 50 Big Law firms, examining their policies around family leave and gender equality. These responses were then weighted against responses from male and female Yale alumni currently working at those firms.