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Action Step: Where, When & How to Work In A Hybrid Environment

The Alliance’s Action Steps are designed to assist organizations with implementing practical strategies and policies related to diversity and flexibility. Members can access full versions of all of the Alliance’s Action Steps in the Member Resource Center.

Many organizations are transforming their workplaces into hybrid environments. This new way of working is a two-way street – in addition to organizations offering hybrid work and providing resources and support, employees must carefully consider when it is best to work in the office and when it is best to work virtually in order to make this arrangement successful. In addition to weighing personal needs, employees must think through the needs of the clients, team and organization when deciding where to work. Here are things to consider when deciding where, when and how to work each day:

Members: continue reading this Action Step in the Member Resource Center

To read this entire Action Step become a member of the Diversity & Flexibility Alliance. To learn more contact Manar Morales.

Congratulations to the Alliance Member Firms Named 2022 Best Law Firms For Women

Congratulations to all the law firms named to Seramount’s 2022 Best Law Firms for Women List.  These firms are being recognized for their ability to “utilize best practices to recruit, retain, promote and develop women lawyers.” The Alliance commends their commitment to these efforts.

We are particularly proud to congratulate the following Diversity & Flexibility Alliance members named to the 2022 List:

  1. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
  2. Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
  3. Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck
  4. Chapman and Cutler
  5. Cooley
  6. Covington & Burling
  7. Crowell & Moring
  8. Davis Wright Tremaine
  9. Dorsey & Whitney
  10. Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner
  11. Lane Powell PC
  12. Latham & Watkins
  13. Lathrop GPM
  14. Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
  15. Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart
  16. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
  17. Perkins Coie
  18. Reed Smith
  19. Seyfarth Shaw
  20. Sheppard Mullin
  21. Sidley Austin
  22. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
  23. Wiley
  24. Winston and Strawn

Smarter Collaboration: A New Approach to Breaking Down Barriers and Transforming Work

2022 Signature Seminar

Smarter Collaboration: A New Approach to Breaking Down Barriers and Transforming Work

Featuring Heidi K. Gardner, Ph.D., Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Center on the Legal Profession

June 28, 2022 | 1:00pm – 2:00pm EST

Solving tough problems in a complex world means we need to collaborate smarter. Join Dr. Heidi K. Gardner to examine how organizations earn higher margins, inspire greater customer loyalty, produce more innovative work, and attract and retain the best talent when specialists engage in Smart Collaboration across boundaries. Drawing from her upcoming book, Heidi will help you understand how this Smarter Collaboration impacts DEI, how to execute effective strategies, and how to avoid the potential pitfalls.

Heidi is the author of Washington Post bestseller, Smart Collaboration: How Professionals and Their Firms Succeed by Breaking Down Silos and Smarter Collaboration: A New Approach to Breaking Down Barriers and Transforming Work.

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Action Step – Hybrid Meetings: Experience, Expectation & Engagement

The Alliance’s Action Steps are designed to assist organizations with implementing practical strategies and policies related to diversity and flexibility. Members can access full versions of all of the Alliance’s Action Steps in the Member Resource Center.

As more organizations are moving towards a hybrid work environment, they must be more intentional about ways to build connection and collaboration. Hybrid work has the potential to create the most optimal work environment, bringing together and leveraging the best of both in-person and virtual work. However, hybrid work will only be successful with intentionality, and organizations must be deliberate and focused on building control, connection, collaboration, culture and contribution – take a look at our Action Step, Overcoming the Myth of the Loss of the 5Cs, which provides specific tips on how to do so. We now want to focus on how to make meetings in a hybrid work environment as engaging, productive and equitable as possible, as meetings are a regular source of workplace control, connection, collaboration, culture, and contribution. Here are our recommendations:

Members: continue reading this Action Step in the Member Resource Center

To read this entire Action Step become a member of the Diversity & Flexibility Alliance. To learn more contact Manar Morales.

Nominate a Partner & Client for Our 2022 Flex Success® Award!

The Diversity & Flexibility Alliance is accepting nominations for our annual Flex Success® Award. The award recognizes partners at member law firms who are successfully working a reduced hours schedule and acknowledges the crucial role clients play in making workplace flexibility a reality. The Award honors attorney/client relationships that best exemplify how, with client support, attorneys can achieve greater work-life control and have extraordinarily successful careers.

The Award will be shared by:
  1. A successful partner at an Alliance member firm who is currently working a reduced hours schedule and has done so for a year or more; AND
  2. A client, to be chosen by the partner, who has contributed to the success of the arrangement.
Nominations can be made by any Alliance member firm, legal department, or by self-nomination. All partner nominees must be from an Alliance member organization. Honorees must be able to virtually accept their awards at our annual conference on November 2, 2022. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS JULY 22, 2022.

Nomination Form