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Bright Spots

Celebrating successes to build momentum for future initiatives.

When you’ve worked hard to create an important diversity or flexibility initiative that truly impacts your organization’s bottom line, recruitment and retention capabilities, or employee satisfaction, you should celebrate your Bright Spots.

Bright Spots can be small or large successes that impact your organization in a positive way.

When you share your Bright Spots you’re building momentum for future initiatives and support from your colleagues. The simple act of compiling your successes can help you self-reflect, take stock, and plan future goals.

As a community of organizations dedicated to the evolution of diversity and flexibility in the workplace, we want to share your successes. We also hope to start a “Ripple Effect” so organizations will see positive results elsewhere and implement the same strategies at home.

SUBMIT YOUR BRIGHT SPOT

We encourage you to take a moment to reflect on your successes and celebrate your Bright Spots with us.

Please take 10 minutes to share your Bright Spots with us, and you’ll be entered to win a $50 Starbucks gift card!

Fill out the short submission form and email it to Jane Caldeira. Please make sure you give your form a new “Save As” name.

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CURRENT BRIGHT SPOT

Bright Spot: Ogletree, Deakins’ Family Leave Policy and Supporting Initiatives

June 29, 2020/by dfalliance

In an effort to inform and inspire our members and friends, we often share diversity and flexibility Bright Spots – those small or large successes that impact an organization in a positive way. We believe that important diversity and flexibility initiatives can truly impact your organization’s bottom line, recruitment and retention capabilities and employee satisfaction.

BRIGHT SPOT

Ogletree Deakins’ gender-neutral Family Leave policy is an impressive Bright Spot. Comprehensively developed, this policy provides a wide range of support mechanisms for attorneys during and following their family leave.

Ogletree’s family leave initiative includes the following benefits:

A gender-neutral Paid Parental Leave (PPL) benefit of up to 16 weeks salary is provided to any attorney on an approved leave after the birth, adoption or foster care placement of a child.
To further help ease an attorney’s transition back to work after the leave, the firm provides an additional on-ramping program which allows for reduced billable hours for a limited period of time. Attorneys are not required to formally request on-ramping and the program does not affect compensation.
Attorneys who are parents also have access to an on-demand back-up childcare service in the event of last minute childcare needs. (This service is also available for the care of an aging parent or other adult dependents.)
A “Milk Stork” program supports nursing mothers by coordinating the shipment of milk when the mother is traveling on firm business.
A business resource group, ODFamily, serves as a resource to assist parents transitioning back to work.
Each new parent has access to an e-course that helps new parents prepare for the transition back to work and offers web community support for questions and resources.

RECENT BRIGHT SPOTS

This Year, Let’s Celebrate Your Bright Spots!

January 2, 2019/by integritive

Happy New Year! This year, why not make it your new year’s resolution to celebrate your Bright Spots?

In 2019, we at the Diversity & Flexibility Alliance will be sharing diversity and flexibility Bright Spots – those small or large successes that impact your organization in a positive way. We believe that important diversity and flexibility initiatives can truly impact your organization’s bottom line, recruitment and retention capabilities and employee satisfaction. We also believe that you should celebrate these accomplishments!

We’re hoping that by sharing our members’ and non-members’ Bright Spots, we’ll help to build momentum and encourage a “Ripple Effect” so that organizations will see positive results elsewhere and implement the same strategies at home.

For our inaugural 2019 Bright Spots, we’re celebrating these 42 law firms who had 50% or greater women in their 2018 New Partner Class. (Check out our 2018 New Partner Report Executive Summary for more details.)

Arent Fox
Arnold & Porter
Baker Donelson
Boies Schiller & Flexner
Brown Rudnick
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Cozen O’Connor
Debevoise & Plimpton
Dechert
Dentons
Epstein Becker & Green
Farella Braun + Martel
Foley Hoag
Fox Rothschild
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy
Gibbons
Goldberg Kohn
Holland & Hart
Jenner & Block
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel
LeClairRyan
Littler Mendelson
McDermott Will & Emery
Miles & Stockbridge
Morgan, Lewis &

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