PAR's Advisory Council

Doug Coblens
Executive Vice-President, Discovery Communications

Erik Corwin
Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP

Mary Cranston
Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

J. Cunyon Gordon
Counsel, Eimer Stahl, Klevorn & Solberg LLP

Susan Hackett
General Counsel, Corporate Counsel Association

Joan Haratani
Partner, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

Alison Hooker
Transactions Advisory Services, Global People Leader, Ernst & Young, LLP

Peter Kalis
Managing Partner, K&L Gates

Gerry Lowry
Partner, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP

Anthony Lupo
Partner, Arent Fox LLP

Lisa A. Madden
Partner, KPMG LLP

Maureen McGinnity
Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP

Debra Myerson
Professor, Stanford University

Michael Nannes
Managing Partner, Dickstein Shapiro LLP

Linda Oliver
Partner, Hogan & Hartson LLP

Carter Philips
Partner, Sidley & Austin LLP

James Potter
Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary, Del Monte Foods Company

Mara Senn
Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP

James Sandman
General Counsel, D.C. Public Schools

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Balanced Hours PAR began operations in 2000 with a grant to study part-time work at law firms in the District of Columbia and develop best practices recommendations. The report, Balanced Hours, was issued in 2001 and has been reprinted, cited, and quoted extensively.  PAR's co-directors have given dozens of presentations to bar associations, law firms, and professional conferences about the findings and recommendations of the law firm study.

PAR also completed a study of work/life issues in corporate law departments. It issued its interim report, Caveat Counselor, in April 2003, and its final report and best practices recommendations, Better on Balance?, in December 2003.

PAR's Co-Directors wrote Solving the Part-Time Puzzle: The Law Firm's Guide to Balanced Hours, a book that provides a nuts and bolts discussion of how to set up and implement an effective part-time program that is designed to attract and retain top legal talent.  The book was published by NALP in 2004.  A companion book for attorneys who are working or want to work part-time will also be published in 2008.

Meet PAR's Directors, Joan Williams and Cynthia Thomas Calvert, Assistant Director, Natalie Hiott Levine, Director of Research, Linda Chanow, Director of Strategic Alliances, Manar Morales, and the former Corporate Counsel Research Director, Holly Cooper.