PAR Flex Success Award Winners
PAR’s annual Flex Success Award recognizes the crucial role clients play in making workplace flexibility a reality. It is given to a law firm partner in a PAR member firm successfully working a reduced hours schedule and a client who contributed to the success of the arrangement.
Here are the winners for the first three years of awards. You can also read the 2009, 2010 and 2011 press releases.
2011
Tie:
Law firm partner:
Alice Valder Curran, Hogan Lovells LLP, Washington
DC
Client: Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hanover NJ
Law firm partner: Janie F. Schulman, Morrison & Foerster LLP, Los Angeles
Client: Jerene Baglin, Human Resources Consultant, Los Angeles
2010
Tie:
Law firm partner:
Stacy Snowman, DLA Piper LLP, San Francisco
Client: Clarissa Cerda, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, LifeLock, Tempe AZ
Law firm partner: Katherine S. Ritchey, Jones Day LLP, San Francisco (Read the Jones Day Press release about the award.)
Client: Dawn Andrews, Chief Employment Counsel, Sempra Energy, San Diego
Honorable mention:
Law firm partner:
Kathryn “Kate” Fritz, Managing Partner,
Fenwick & West LLP, San Francisco
Client: David Weiskopf, formerly of Corbis, now at Apple, Inc.
2009
Tie:
Law firm partner:
Virginia A. Seitz, was at Sidley Austin LLP,
now Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department
of Justice
Client: Michael Weiner, The Major League Baseball Players Association, New York
Law firm partner: Deborah Kelly, Dickstein Shapiro LLP, Washington DC (Read the Dickstein Shapiro press release about the award.)
Client: Anahaita Kotval, Managing Director and General Counsel, RBS Securities, Inc., Greenwich CT
Honorable mention (Tie):
Law firm partner:
Susan H. Mac Cormac,
Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco
Client: Brodie Stephens, formerly at EDAW, now at Perkins + Will.
Law firm partner: Michelle M. Bufano, Gibbons PC, Newark NJ
Client: Mary-Alice Barrett, Senior Counsel, Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Nutley NJ
