The firm has adopted a "Balanced Work Life Plan". On its website, it explains that "Balanced Work Life Plans are individually tailored reduced schedules that are agreed to between the attorney and Firm management and are designed to balance personal needs with those of the Firm and its clients."

Part-time attorneys who work more hours than they have contracted to are given "bonus consideration", according the the firm's NALP workplace questionnaire. A more laudatory approach to part-time hours was suggested in a 2005 article in National Jurist, which reported that at the firm "Hours worked are scrupulously monitored, with additional compensation paid or time off taken, to avoid schedule creep." That, of course, is considered a best practice by PAR.

Caution: The firm's NALP workplace questionnaire terms "less than full-time work arrangements" to be a "women's issue." That, of course, is not good.

In "Part-Time Partners" (Washington Lawyer magazine, Dec. 2006, by Joan Rigdon), Stacy Silber reported that she found a supportive atmosphere for part-time work in the D.C. office of Holland & Knight, and she was made a part-time partner three years after joining the firm as a lateral.

However, this is balanced by another caution: In the Daily Business Review (Florida), it was reported that in the AmLaw Mid-Level Associate Satisfaction Survey for 2006, an associate commented that “Several partners in Chicago have made disparaging remarks [about] the balanced-life or part-time programs and make it difficult for women to have families.” The article also reported that a New York associate wrote that partners give “lots of lip service to diversity and flexible work schedules without real action to retain these talented lawyers.”