Making Flexible Work Schedules Benefit Women Lawyers -- and Their Firms - Building Gender Balanced Business

• Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, CEO of 20-first, has written on the difficulties of converting the brutal working schedules of the partnership model in law to 21st century management skills. See a summary of an article she wrote on the issue.

• While The Lawyer found a direct correlation between use of flexible schedules and increased numbers of female partners, the share of equity partners, the true elite (and best compensated), doesn’t budge much.

• A quarter of partners in UK firms are women, but 42 of the top-earning 50 firms in the country fall below average. And at only 10% of those firms is 1 in 4 equity partners a woman.

• So while firms need to fix the problem to safeguard their Talent investment and attract new Talent, they have so far been fairly unsuccessful. Research, in part by The Lawyer, highlights three key aspects to successful implementation of flexible schedules that could reduce some of the loss of talent that law firms inflict on themselves.

The rest of this article, including our summary of the solutions proposed by The Lawyer, is available to subscribers of the 20-first.com Toolkit, a complete, step-by-step guide to implementing sustainable gender balancing strategies. The Toolkit delivers all of 20-first’s experience in a manager-friendly, ready-to-use resource. It includes mutli-media presentations, guidelines, tools, videos, case studies and CEO interviews and more for each of the four phases – audit, awareness, align, sustain.

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