Law Firms Doing More to Retain Employees by Helping Them with Their Everyday Lives

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When attorney Randi Klein Hyatt applied for an associate position at Shawe & Rosenthal in 2001, she made it clear that her job as a mother came first. The firm's leadership agreed and Hyatt became its first lawyer to work a reduced schedule.

When I came over here I was already working on a reduced schedule so I negotiated from that position. That was my number one priority - to have flexibility, she said. They recognized that giving me that flexibility makes me a much more productive worker.

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Law Firms Doing More to Retain Employees by Helping Them with Their Everyday Lives

Hyatt, now the mother of a 5-year-old daughter and an 18-month- old son, works a four-day week and does so from home whenever possible so she can spend more time with her children.

I do a lot of things at night that make up for not being in the office, she said. There are weeks that it doesn't work but when it does work it's great.

According to Cynthia Thomas Calvert, co-director of The Project for Attorney Retention at American University's Washington College of Law (and author of a soon-to-be pu...

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