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Firm Offices Offices Target Hours Holiday Allowance Parental Leave Solicitor Gender Pay Gap Healthcare Flexible Working Bonus
Dechert Philadelphia London Almaty, Austin, Beijing, Bonn, Boston, Brussels, Charlotte, Chicago, Dubai, Dublin, Frankfurt, Hartford, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Luxembourg, Moscow, Munich, New York, Orange County, Paris, Philadelphia, Princeton, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Washington DC 1750 28 Maternity policy is enhanced to 18 weeks at 100% of pay. Paternity is enhanced to 4 weeks. - Yes - Yes
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton New York London Frankfurt, Beijing, Washington DC, Cologne, Buenos Aires, Paris, Rome, Sao Paulo, Brussels, Milan, Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong, Seoul, Moscow - - - - - - -
Norton Rose Fulbright London London Amsterdam, Athens, Bahrain, Bangkok, Beijing, Brisbane, Brussels, Bogotá, Canada (Calgary, Montréal, Ottawa, Québec, Toronto, Vancouver), Canberra, Cape Town, Caracas, Casablanca, Dar es Salaam, Dubai, Durban, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Luxembourg, Melbourne, Mexico City, Milan, Monaco, Moscow, Munich, Paris, Perth, Piraeus, Port Moresby, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, USA (Austin, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, San Antonio, San Francisco, St Louis, Washington DC), Tokyo, Warsaw 1500 25 Enhanced maternity, subject to length of service - Yes - Yes
Sidley Austin Chicago London Beijing, Brussels, Geneva, Hong Kong, Munich, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, USA (Boston, Century City, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Washington DC) None 25 22 weeks maternity at full salary. - Yes - -
Morrison & Foerster San Francisco London Beijing, Berlin, Brussels, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, USA (Denver, Los Angeles, New York, Northern Virginia, Palo Alto, San Diego, San Francisco, Washington DC)
- - - - - - -
Dentons London Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Milton Keynes Canada (Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver), United States (Albany, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Hilo, Honolulu, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York, Orange County, Phoenix, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco/Oakland, Short Hills, Silicon Valley, St. Louis, Tysons, Washington DC), Latin America and the Caribbean (Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Bogotá, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Guanacaste, Guatemala City, Guyana, Jamaica, Lima, Mexico City, Monterrey, Montserrat, Panama City, San José, San Salvador, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and The Grenadines), Europe (Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Paris Rome), Central and Eastern Europe (Bratislava, Bucharest, Budapest, Istanbul, Prague, Warsaw), Russia and the Caucasus (Kyiv, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tbilisi), Africa (Cairo, Cape Town, Casablanca, Johannesburg), Middle East (Abu Dhabi, Doha, Dubai, Muscat), Central Asia (Almaty, Astana, Baku, Tashkent), China (Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, plus 42 more), Singapore, Asia Pacific (Port Moresby, Seoul, Ulaanbaatar, Yangon), Australia (Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney) 1600 25/26 Enhanced maternity pay - Yes - Yes
Akin Gump Washington, DC London Abu Dhabi, Beijing, Dallas, Dubai, Fort Worth, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hartford, Hong Kong, Houston, Irvine, Los Angeles, Moscow, New York, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San Francisco, Singapore, Washington DC - - - - - - -
Osborne Clarke London Bristol, London, Reading Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Busto Arsizio, Brescia, Brussels, Cologne, Hamburg, Madrid, Milan, Munich, New York, Padua, Palo Alto, Paris, Rome, San Francisco, Stockholm, Zaragoza 1300 25-28 Enhanced parentla leave of 12 weeks' full pay on completion of 1 year's service, 15 weeks' full pay on completion of 3 years' service on or before the 11th week prior to the EWC - Yes - Yes
Simmons & Simmons London Bristol, London Amsterdam, Beijing Brussels, Doha, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Paris, Shanghai, Singapore
1600 25 26 weeks at 100% average weekly earnings + 13 weeks at Statutory Maternity Pay and remaining 13 weeks unpaid - Yes - -
Bevan Brittan Birmingham Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, London - - - - - - -
DLA Piper London Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Sheffield Aarhus, Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Auckland, Beijing, Bratislava, Brisbane, Bogotá, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Canada (Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Toronto, Vancouver, Yellowknife), Casablanca, Cologne, Copenhagen, Doha, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Kuwait City, Kyiv, Lima, Lisbon, Luxembourg, Madrid, Manama, Melbourne, Mexico City, Milan, Moscow, Munich, Muscat, Oslo, Paris, Perth, Prague, Rome, Seoul, Shanghai, Santiago, Singapore, Stockholm, St Petersburg, Sydney, Tokyo, USA (Albany, Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New Jersey, New York, Northern Virginia, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Raleigh, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Silicon Valley, Washington DC, Wilmington), Warsaw, Wellington, Vienna 1500 25 18 weeks, up to 40 weeks once 2 years' service. 5 days paternity leave. - Yes - Yes
Birketts Ipswich Cambridge, Chelmsford, Ipswich, London, Norwich - - - - - - -
Pinsent Masons London Aberdeen, Belfast, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Falklands, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Manchester Beijing, Doha, Dubai, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Hong Kong, Madrid, Melbourne, Munich, Paris, Perth, Singapore, Shanghai, Sydney
1500 25 Employees with more than one year's continuous service at the start of the 15th week before the EWC get enhanced pay. Full pay for 26 weeks of maternity leave, made up of a top up during leave and a return to work bonus after completion of six months further service. - Yes - Yes
Skadden Arps New York City London Beijing, Boston, Brussels, Chicago, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Houston, Los Angeles, Moscow, Munich, New York, Palo Alto, Paris, Sau Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, Toronto, Washington DC, Wilmington - 25 - - - - Yes
Allen & Overy London Belfast, London Amsterdam, Antwerp, Bangkok, Barcelona, Beijing, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Bratislava, Casablanca, Doha, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Munich, New York, Paris, Perth, Prague, Rome, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Warsaw, Washington DC 1750 25 6 weeks at full pay, 33 weeks at statutory minimum. Bonus of 6 weeks' pay at start of maternity leave and a bonus of 8 weeks' pay for returning employees who stay for 3 months. - Yes - -
Womble Bond Dickinson Winston-Salem Aberdeen, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, London, Newcastle, Plymouth, and Southampton. Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Charleston, Charlotte, Charlottesville, Columbia, Greensboro, Greenville, Los Angeles, Orange County, Raleigh, Research Triangle Park, Silicon Valley, Tysons, Washington DC, Wilmington, Winston-Salem - - - - - - -
Knights Newcastle Birmingham, Cheltenham, Chester, Crawley, Exeter, Leeds, Leicester, Maidstone, Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford, Sheffield, Stoke, Teesside, Weybridge, Wilmslow, York - - - - - - -
RPC London Bristol, London Hong Kong, Singapore 1575 22 - 25 Enhanced - Yes - Yes
Squire Patton Boggs Cleveland Birmingham, Leeds, London, Manchester Abu Dhabi, Beijing, Berlin, Birmingham, Böblingen, Bratislava, Brussels, Budapest, Darwin, Doha, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Madrid, Moscow, Paris, Perth, Prague, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Warsaw
1300 23 3 levels depending on length of service. Max package offers 100% pay for 18 weeks and 50% until 29 weeks after birth - - - -
Addleshaw Goddard London Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Manchester Doha, Dubai, Hong Kong, Oman, Singapore 1600 25 Enhanced maternity and paternity - Yes - -
Walker Morris Leeds Leeds - - - - - - -
Eversheds Sutherland London Belfast, Birmingham, Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Ipswich, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Belfast Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Beijing, Berlin, Berne, Brunei Darussalam, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Doha, Dubai, Dublin, Durban, Dusseldorf, Geneva, Hamburg, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Paris, Port Louis, Riga, Rome, Singapore, Stockholm, Rotterdam, Shanghai, St Petersburg, Tallinn, Tunis, Vienna, Vilnius, Warsaw, Zurich 1500 26 6 weeks at 90% of salary, 12 weeks at 50%. Return to work bonus of 10% of the 6 week period and 50% of the 12 week period for those back at work after 6 months. - Yes - Yes
Mayer Brown Chicago London Brussels, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Paris, USA (Charlotte, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Washington DC), Asia (Beijing, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo) - - - - - - -
Sackers London London 1400 30 16 weeks full pay, 4 weeks half pay and SMP - Yes - Yes
Stephenson Harwood London London Beijing, Dubai, Hong Kong, Paris, Piraeus, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Yangon 1550 25 - - - - Yes
Ashurst London London, Glasgow Abu Dhabi, Beijing, Brisbane, Brussels, Canberra, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Madrid, Melbourne, Milan, Munich, New York, Paris, Perth, Port Moresby, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Washington DC 1600 27 20 weeks on full pay - Yes - -
Capsticks London Birmingham, Leeds, London, Winchester - - - - - - -
Farrers London London 1250 25 Enhanced maternity policy. - Yes - Yes
Mills & Reeve London Birmingham, Cambridge, Manchester, Leeds, London, Norwich - - - - - - -
Shearman & Sterling New York City London Abu Dhabi, Austin, Beijing, Brussels, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Houston, Menlo Park, Milan, New York, Paris, Rome, San Francisco, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, Toronto, Washington DC None 24 Enhanced maternity, six months full pay subject to returning to work - Yes - Yes
Taylor Wessing London Cambridge, London Amsterdam, Beijing, Berlin, Bratislava, Brussels, Brno, Budapest, Dubai, Dusseldorf, Eindhoven, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Kiev, Klagenfurt, Munich, New York, Paris, Prague, Singapore, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Vienna, Warsaw 1600 25 For those with 2 years of service or more, enhanced maternity pay for 39 weeks; 18 weeks at 100% and the remainder at statutory rates. - - - Yes
Baker McKenzie Chicago Belfast, London Abu Dhabi, Almaty, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Bahrain, Barcelona, Berlin, Budapest, Brussels, Cairo, Casablanca, Doha, Dubai, Dusseldorf, Geneva, Frankfurt, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Kyiv, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Munich, Paris, Prague, Rome, St Petersburg, Stockholm, Vienna, Warsaw, Zurich 1700 25 Enhanced - Yes - -
Fieldfisher London Belfast, Birmingham, London, Manchester Amsterdam, Beijing, Bologna, Brussels, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Guangzhou, Hamburg, Luxembourg, Milan, Munich, Paris, Rome, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Turin, Venice - 25 - 30 Enhanced maternity 1500 Yes - Yes
Weightmans Liverpool Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle - - - - - - -
Slaughter and May London London Brussels, Beijing, Hong Kong None 30 Maternity pay in excess of statutory minimum - Yes - Yes
Trowers & Hamlins London Birmingham, Exeter, London, Manchester Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, Oman 1550 25 Statutory, although a maternity bonus is payable after a qualifying period. - - - -
Irwin Mitchell Sheffield Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield, Southampton - - - - - - -
Freshfields London London, Manchester Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Beijing, Berlin, Brussels, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Madrid, Manama, Milan, Moscow, Munich, New York, Paris, Riyadh, Rome, Singapore Shanghai, Tokyo, Vienna, Washington DC None 26 26 weeks full pay maternity leave and half salary for another 6 weeks - Yes - Yes
Gibson Dunn Los Angeles London Century City, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Orange County, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Brussels, Frankfurt, Munich, Pari, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore - - - - - - -
Watson, Farley & Williams London London Athens, Bangkok, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanoi, Hong Kong, Madrid, Milan, Munich, New York, Paris, Rome, Singapore, None 25 6 weeks at 90% salary (statutory) 26 weeks at 50% (Enhanced maternity pay and statutory pay). Remaining 7 weeks at statutory level - Yes - -
Bristows London London Brussels None 23 - 25 - - Yes - -
Latham & Watkins Los Angeles London Beijing, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Munich, Paris, Rome, Singapore, Seoul, Shanghai, Tokyo, USA (Boston, Century City, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Orange County, San Diego, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Washington DC) - - - - - - -
Gowling WLG London Birmingham, London Beijing, Brussels, Canada (Calgary, Hamilton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Waterloo Region), Dubai, Guangzhou, Moscow, Munich, Paris, Stuttgart - - - - - - No
Travers Smith London London Paris None 25 - - Yes - Yes
Penningtons Manches London Basingstoke, Cambridge, Guildford, London, Oxford, Reading San Francisco - - - - - - -
Herbert Smith Freehills London Belfast, London Bangkok, Beijing, Berlin, Brisbane, Brussels, Dubai, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Madrid, Melbourne, Milan, Moscow, New York, Paris, Perth, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo 1700 27 Enhanced maternity policy for those with 26 weeks service at 14th week before EWC. 18 weeks full pay, 8 weeks SMP, 26 weeks unpaid. - Yes - Yes
HF (Horwich Farrelly) Manchester London, Cardiff, Manchester, Liverpool, York, Salford, Belfast, Faream - - - - - - -
Weil New York City London Beijing, Boston, Dallas, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Houston, Miami, Munich, New York, Paris, Prague, Princeton, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Warsaw, Washington DC 1600 23 - 28 26 weeks at 100% of salary, 26 weeks at 50% of salary - Yes - Yes
Winston & Strawn Chicago London Brussels, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Dubai, Hong Kong, Houston, Los Angeles, Moscow, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Washington DC - 25 - - Yes - -
Charles Russell Speechlys London Cheltenham, Guilford, London Doha, Dubai, Geneva, Luxembourg, Manama, Paris, Zurich 1500 25-28 depending on length of service Enhanced maternity pay of 18 weeks full pay after one year's service - Yes - No
PWC - - - - - - - -
Hogan Lovells London Birmingham, London Alicante, Amsterdam, Beijing, Brussels, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Madrid, Mexico City, Milan, Monterrey, Moscow, Munich, Paris, Perth, Rome, Shanghai, Singapore, São Paulo, Sydney, Tokyo, USA (Baltimore, Boston, Colorado Springs, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Louisville, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Northern Virginia, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Washington DC), Warsaw 1700 25 Enhanced maternity after one year's service - Yes - Yes
White & Case New York City London Abu Dhabi, Astana, Beijing, Berlin, Bratislava, Brussels, Cairo, Doha, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hamburg, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Madrid, Manila, Melbourne, Milan, Moscow, Paris, Prague, USA (Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Miami, New York, São Paulo, Silicon Valley, Tampa, Washington DC), Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, Tashkent, Tokyo, Warsaw
1750 25 100% of salary for 6 months, 50% of salary for a further 14 weeks. - - - Yes
Kirkland & Ellis Chicago London Beijing, Boston, Chicago ,Dallas, Hong Kong, Houston, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Shanghai, Washington DC - - - - - - -
Shakespeare Martineau Birmingham Birmingham, Brussels, Leicester, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Sheffield, Solihull, Stratford Upon Avon - - - - - - -
BDB Pitmans Reading London, Reading, Southampton, Cambridge - - - - - - -
Clyde & Co London Aberdeen, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Guildford, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Oxford Abu Dhabi, Atlanta, Beijing, Brisbane, Cape Town, Caracas, Chicago, Dar es Salaam, Doha, Dubai, Dusseldorf, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Los Angeles, Madrid, Melbourne, Mexico City, Miami, Montréal, Nantes, New Jersey, New York, Orange County, Paris, Perth, Riyadh, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Toronto, Washington DC
1450 25 Enhanced. Full pay for 13 weeks, £200 a week for another 13 weeks. - Yes - -
HFW London London Abu Dhabi, Brussels, Dubai, Geneva, Hong Kong, Houston, Melbourne, Paris, Perth, Piraeus, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney 1500 25 - 27 Statutory plus discretionary for maternity - Yes - Yes
Jones Day Cleveland London Amsterdam, Atlanta, Beijing, Boston, Brisbane, Brussels, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Dallas, Detroit, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Houston, Irvine, Los Angeles, Madrid, Melbourne, Mexico City, Miami, Milan, Minneapolis, Moscow, Munich, New York, Paris, Perth, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco, São Paulo, Saudi Arabia, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Sydney, Taipei, Tokyo, Washington DC 1700 25 Enhanced, 6 months full pay - - - Yes
Ogier Jersey Guernsey, Jersey, London British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Shanghai, Tokyo - - - - - - -
CMS London Aberdeen, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Manchester, Sheffield, Reading Barcelona, Bratislava, Dubai, Geneva, Kyiv, Ljubljana, Madrid, Seville, Singapore, Zurich 1500 25 - 28 Enhanced (full pay for 10 weeks, half pay for 16 weeks plus return to work bonus) - Yes - Yes
Slater and Gordon Melbourne Birmingham, Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Preston, Watford Oz - - - - - - -
Axiom Ince London London Beijing, Shanghai None 25 - 27 10 weeks maternity leave at full pay, 4 weeks at 75% of pay, 4 weeks at 50% of pay and then 8 weeks at SMP. - Yes - Yes
K&L Gates Pittsburgh London Beijing, Berlin, Brisbane, Brussels, Doha, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Munich, Milan, Paris, Perth, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Taipei, Tokyo, USA (Austin, Boston, Charleston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Fort Worth, Harrisburg, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Newark, Orange County, Palo Alto, Pittsburgh, Portland, Raleigh, Research Triangle Park, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC, Wilmington), Warsaw 1600 - - - - - -
Mishcon De Reya London London Singapore - - - - - - -
DAC Beachcroft London Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Newport, Winchester Bogotá D.C, Dublin, Madrid, Mexico City, Miami, Santiago de Chile, Singapore 1440-1500 24-30 The firm pays 12 weeks at full pay and 12 weeks at half pay - Yes - Yes
Cooley Palo Alto London Beijing, Boston, Brussels, Colorado, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Shanghai, Singapore, Washington DC - - - - - - -
Linklaters London London Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Bangkok, Beijing, Berlin, Brussels, Dubai, Dusseldorf, Frankurt, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Madrid, Milan, Munich, New York, Paris, Rome, São Paulo, Seoul, Singapore, Shanghai, Stockholm, Tokyo, Warsaw, Washington DC 1700 25 Enhanced maternity leave provisions - equivalent to 26 weeks full pay - Yes - Yes
KWM Hong Kong London - - - - - - -
Carey Olsen Jersey Guernsey, Jersey, London Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cape Town, Cayman Islands, Hong Kong, Singapore - - - - - - -
Debevoise & Plimpton New York City London Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Moscow, New York, Paris, Shanghai, Tokyo, Washington DC None 22 Enhanced - Yes - Yes
Reed Smith Pittsburgh London Abu Dhabi, Athens, Austin, Beijing, Century City, Chicago, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Houston, Kazakhstan, Los Angeles, Miami, Munich, New York, Paris, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Princeton, Richmond, San Francisco, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Tysons, Washington DC, Wilmington 1500 25 4 months full pay with returning bonus of one month's salary - - - -
Baker Botts Houston London Austin, Beijing, Brussels, Dallas, Dubai, HK, Kuwait, Texas, Moscow, NY, Palo Alto, Riyadh, San Francisco, Washington 1600 hours - Maternity leave: 12 weeks full pay
Paternity leave: 2 weeks full pay
- Yes - Discretionary
Ropes & Gray Boston London Chicago, Hong Kong, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Tokyo and Washington, D.C. - - Maternity & Paternity Policy
- Six months full pay maternity/adoption
- Six months shared parental leave
- One month full pay paternity/adoption
- Parental leave coaching
- Yes Back-up childcare and adult-care -
Clarke Willmott Bristol Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, London, Manchester, Southampton, Taunton 1400 26-30 days. Option to buy additional 5 days. Enhanced maternity and paternity pay Hourly paid: 25.7% (mean). Bonus pay: 45.4% (mean). Yes Hybrid working allowing staff to choose -
Macfarlanes London London Brussels None 26 Enhanced maternity - 26 weeks at full pay. Paternity leave - 4 weeks at full pay. - Yes Hybrid working model Yes
Burges Salmon Bristol Bristol, London, Edinburgh 1,450 (700 for trainees) 25 days (+1 after 3, 6 and 10 years) Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay. - Yes Hybrid working model, allowing staff to work more flexibly Yes
Kennedys United Kingdom Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Chelmsford, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield, Taunton Auckland, Austin, Basking Ridge, Bogotá, Brisbane, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Copenhagen, Dubai, Dublin, Fort Lauderdale, Hamilton, Hong Kong, Houston, Lima, Madrid, Melbourne, Mexico City, Miami, Muscat, New York, Paris, Perth, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Santiago, São Paulo, Singapore, Sydney, Tel Aviv, Wilmington 1,550 25-30 days allowance. Flexible bank holiday leave. 26 weeks full pay after 26 weeks' service for maternity, adoption and SPL. Four weeks full pay for co-parent leave. - Yes Hybrid working policy allows flexibility to combine working from home, with working from the office. Teams / offices have the discretion to decide on what attendance in the office is appropriate dependent on business needs. -
Stevens & Bolton Guildford Guildford 1300 - Option of 26 weeks enhanced maternity pay. 8.2% Yes Two days per week in the office and flexible working arrangements available Yes
DWF Manchester Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle Berlin, Brisbane, Brussels, Chicago, Doha, Dubai, Dublin, Cologne, Melbourne, Milan, Munich, Newcastle (NSW), Paris, Singapore, Sydney, Toronto Undisclosed 25 - - Yes Yes -
Bird & Bird London London Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Beijing, Bratislava, Brussels, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, The Hague, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Lyon, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Paris, Prague, Rome, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, Warsaw 1550 25 days Yes - Yes Yes Yes
Winckworth Sherwood London London, Manchester, Oxford 1500 25 Yes – enhanced maternity and paternity pay - Yes Yes Yes
BCLP London Manchester Abu Dhabi, Atlanta, Berlin, Boulder, Brussels, Charlotte, Chicago, Colorado Springs, Dallas, Denver, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Irvine, Jefferson City, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, Moscow, New York, Overland Park, Paris, Phoenix, San Francisco, Singapore, Shanghai, Southern Illinois, St. Louis, Tel Aviv, Washington - 25 - - Yes Yes Yes
Clifford Chance London London, Newcastle Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Beijing, Brussels, Bucharest, Casablanca, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Munich, New York, Paris, Perth, Prague, Rome, São Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, Sydney, Tokyo, Warsaw, Washington
1800 25 28 weeks on full pay and 17 weeks on statutory maternity pay - Yes Yes Yes
Hill Dickinson Liverpool Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester Piraeus, Singapore, Monaco, Hong Kong - 25 Yes - - Yes Yes
Withers London Cambridge, London British Virgin Islands, Geneva, Greenwich, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Milan, New Haven, New York, Padua, Rancho Santa Fe, San Diego, San Francisco, Sydney
1400 25 Enhanced - Yes Yes Yes
Shoosmiths Milton Keynes Manchester, Belfast, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Northampton, Nottingham, Southampton, Thames Valley None 23 to 30. Plus a day for birthday and a day for CSR Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay available - Yes Yes -
TLT Bristol Belfast, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Manchester Piraeus - 25-33 2 Weeks of paternity leave (full pay for one week + one week statutory), Shared parental leave & maternity pay: up to full pay for 9 weeks/half pay for 6 weeks/statutory shared parental pay for 22 weeks/ statutory maternity pay for 24 weeks (depending on length of service). - Yes Yes. Yes