PAR Flex Success Conversations

The Project for Attorney Retention presents: Flex Success Conversations

A PAR Flex Success Conversation

Flex Success:
Advancing Balanced Hours Lawyers

A 1/2 day program for reduced hours lawyers and others interested in balanced hours success.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Hogan Lovells US LLP
Columbia Square
555 Thirteenth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20004

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Registration: 1:30 pm - Program 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Registration includes Networking Reception 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

PROGRAM AGENDA

1:30	Registration and Informal Meet and Greet
2:00	Welcome and Introductions Manar Morales, Executive Director, Project for Attorney Retention Alice Valder Curran, Partner, Hogan Lovells US LLP
2:15	Engaging Clients and Law Firm Leaders in the Conversation A successful flexible work program needs to have strong leadership from the top. Law firm leaders and clients set the tone throughout their organizations to support non-stigmatized balanced hours. This panel will focus on the role Clients and Law Firm Leaders play in ensuring that balanced hours lawyers are positioned for success. Moderator: Manar Morales, Executive Director, Project for Attorney Retention Panelists: Kenneth Grady, General Counsel and Secretary, Wolverine Worldwide Kerry L. Kotouc, Vice President and General Counsel, Corporate Affairs/Government Relations, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Benjamin Wilson, Managing Principal, Beveridge & Diamond, P.C. Emily Yinger, Regional Managing Partner, Hogan Lovells US LLP
3:30	Break
3:45	Surefire Strategies for Balanced Hours Success Balanced hours attorneys can proactively manage and advance their careers through planning and negotiating an effective balanced hours schedule, overcoming obstacles, and identifying and interrupting gender bias. The panelists will share tools for making a balanced hours schedule work and how they were able have successful careers while working flexibly. Moderator: Cynthia Thomas Calvert, Senior Advisor, Project for Attorney Retention; Principal, CT Calvert & Associates Panelists: Heidi Chen, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, Pfizer, Inc. Eve Howard, Partner, Hogan Lovells US LLP Marci Rose Levine, Partner, SNR Denton Christopher Rhee, Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP
4:45	Keynote Sara Manzano-Diaz, Director, Department of Labor Women’s Bureau
5:15	Networking Reception

Registration Details: All attendees receive a copy of Flex Success: The Lawyer’s Guide to Balanced Hours. The book explores how strategic career moves and careful avoidance of obstacles can propel reduced-hours lawyers to the top of the legal profession.