Life at Morgan Lewis Achieving a Balance

Firm Fast Facts

Diversity Highlights

Receipt by Joan Haratani of the Council on Legal Education Opportunity's Bar Association Diversity Award (2008).

Receipt by Joan Haratani of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund's Award of Excellence for Outstanding Achievements in the Field of Law and Criminal Justice (2008).

Recipient of the Hispanic National Bar Association's Corporate Partner of the Year Award (2007).

Recipient of the first-ever University of Pennsylvania Black Law Students Association "Contribution of Distinction" Award (Feb. 2005).

Recognition of Anne Marie Estevez by Hispanic Business magazine as a "2006 Elite Woman" and finalist in its 2006 Hispanic Woman of the Year award. Anne Marie has also been recognized by Diversity Inc. Magazine and in Working Mother magazine.

Selection of Grace Speights and Celia Roady as two of the Top 50 Women in Washington, D.C. by Super Lawyers magazine.

Election of Joan Haratani as the first female minority president of the Bar Association of San Francisco.

Appointment of Renier Pierantoni as deputy president of the Hispanic National Bar Association for the New York Region.

Election of Maria Gonzalez Calvet as president-elect of the Hispanic Bar Association of Philadelphia.

Receipt by Dennis Morikawa and Joan Haratani of the NAPABA "Trailblazer Award" at the NAPABA Annual Convention (Nov. 2006).

19% of the female attorneys who were elected to partnership in the past five years did so while working on an alternative schedule.

Premier sponsor of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA).

Pro Bono in 2007

More than 92,000 hours were spent on pro bono representations, at a value to our pro bono clients of tens of millions of dollars.

More than 75% of the firm's attorneys contributed at least 20 hours to a pro bono matter; representations span all practice groups and offices.

Representations included more than 1,100 active matters, including 425 new matters.

Full "above the line" credit given for pro bono time charges.

Morgan Lewis is a signatory to the Pro Bono Institute's Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge.

We recognize that you are a dedicated professional with individual interests, so our goal is to make the work experience stimulating, balanced, and fun. We make certain you have the opportunity to excel at everything you do—professionally and personally—because at Morgan Lewis, we believe that quality of life is as important as quality of work.

Many of us need to balance work commitments with family and other obligations. Flextime, telecommuting, and part-time schedules are available options for our lawyers—male or female, associates or partners. During the past five years, for example, 19 percent of our female lawyers who were elected to partnership did so while working a reduced schedule.

We organize our legal teams—secretaries, paralegals, associates, and partners alike—into integrated client-service teams, because we value the benefits of different perspectives. The demands of work and home affect everyone, and achieving a balance requires flexibility on the part of the individual and the firm. As a result, we recognize individual needs and strive to make each team member’s life as manageable as possible. In many of our offices, we offer amenities like emergency-child care arrangements, onsite fitness facilities, coffee bars, and complimentary snacks. Many offices have weekly social gatherings open to all staff and attorneys to facilitate interaction among team members.

At Morgan Lewis, we trust our professionals to perform at their top levels, and we provide them with the flexibility to do so.