Welcome to the Project for Attorney Retention

Welcome to the Project for Attorney Retention (PAR). PAR works to reduce unwanted attrition among lawyers by promoting the retention and advancement of women in the legal profession and by encouraging work/life balance for all attorneys. Linking high-quality academic research with “news you can use” practical steps for improving diversity and flexibility, PAR works to help legal employers match today’s workplace to today’s workforce in a rapidly changing legal profession. PAR is a not-for-profit initiative at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, funded by PAR Members and individual supporters.

Learn more about PAR’s research, business-based solutions, and PAR’s Board of Advisors and staff.

 

Upcoming Events

June 5, 2012: Making the Ask Member Teleconference with Sara Holtz, Author of Bringin' in the Rain.

July 11-14, 2012: Hastings Leadership Academy for Women, a leadership development program for women law firm partners.

July 13, 2012: Hastings Leadership Academy for Women In-House Counsel Program, a day of programming shared with partcipants in the full day Leadership Academy.

July 13, 2012: Hastings Leadership Academy for Women Alumnae Program, a day of advanced programming for alumnae of previous Leadership Academies.

August 9, 2012: Balanced Hours Coordinators Networking Call.

What’s New at PAR

New Corporate Counsel Report


Value Comes from Better Work-Life Balance

PAR’s Diversity & Connection Flexibility Member, Laura Stein, Senior Vice President & General Counsel, The Clorox Company, discusses PAR’s corporate counsel research and the necessity of incorporating flexibility and adding value based on efficient accomplishment of business objectives.

Reprinted with the permission of the Association of Corporate Counsel and the author as originally appeared: "Value Comes from Better Work-Life Balance," ACC Docket 29, no 6 (July/August): 106-111. Copyright 2011 the Association of Corporate Counsel. All rights reserved.

Joan Williams proposes three systematic changes law firms can make to move “Diversity Beyond the Body Count” [pdf]

PAR’s 2011 Year-End Double Issue Focus Newsletter

Read all about our work this year as well as member highlights, upcoming events and news.

 


Flex Success: The Lawyer’s Guide to Balanced Hours by PAR founders Cynthia Calvert and Joan Williams is now available.

 

Promotion of Women Lawyers Stalls with 2011 Promotions – read PAR’s report

Opting Back In, a telephone coaching group for attorneys who left law for a year or more to care for their families. OPENINGS AVAILABLE.