Flex-Time Lawyers

CONSULTING/SPEAKING

Deborah Epstein Henry is a nationally recognized expert on workplace restructuring, talent management, work/life balance, and the retention and promotion of lawyers, with a focus on women. She provides consulting services to law firms, in-house legal departments, professional service firms, corporations, bar associations, law schools, individual lawyers, and professionals in industries outside of law. Author of LAW & REORDER: Legal Industry Solutions for Restructure, Retention, Promotion & Work/Life Balance (American Bar Association, 2010) and a former practicing litigator, Debbie is President of Flex-Time Lawyers LLC, a national consulting firm she founded in the late 1990s. In 2010, Debbie founded the Law & Reorder® consulting practice. For more information about Debbie's experience and background, please click here.

In the Law & Reorder® consulting practice, Debbie provides advisory, training and speaking services on workplace restructuring, talent management, work/life balance, and the retention and promotion of lawyers, with a focus on women. With some clients, she works on a retainer basis, serving as an ongoing resource; for others, she serves as a supervisor and advisor, saving employers from hiring a dedicated internal employee. For Debbie's speaking services, she gives presentations, workshops and seminars and frequently serves as a facilitator or moderator to guide discussions or panels at law firms, in-house legal departments, professional service firms, corporations, bar associations, law schools, and firm and company retreats. For some clients, up to six of these programs covering a theme of related topics are grouped to serve as a speaking series. For others, talks are given on an individual basis. To view the topics and venues of her prior and upcoming national public speaking events, click here.

To learn more about the Law & Reorder® consulting practice, including the advisory, training and speaking services, click the links in the headings below. Or, e-mail Debbie at dehenry@flextimelawyers.com or call her at 610.658.0836.

THE LAW & REORDER® CONSULTING PRACTICE INCLUDES THESE ADVISORY AND TRAINING SERVICES, AMONG OTHERS:

Workplace Restructure - (click to open)

Talent Management - (click to open)

Work/Life Balance - (click to open)

Work/Life Balance - (click to close)

Drafting, analyzing, training and implementing work/life policies. Including parental leave, flexible and reduced hours, re-entry, phase back, and phased retirement. Providing industry standards and establishing benchmarks.
Designing a work/life friendly employer. Includes a focus on a range of work/life policies, creating a hospitable environment for all lawyers, and making flexible and reduced hours work.
Designing and implementing flexible work arrangements. Includes telecommuting, flexible and reduced hours, job shares, fixed hours, annualized hours, and core hours to meet different practice demands and lawyer needs.
The business case for flexible and reduced hours. Education of the economic benefits of work/life policies and flexible and reduced hours, including in an economic downturn.
Cost saving opportunities from the increased push for work/life balance. Educating on how to capitalize on cost saving opportunities as a result of technology, clients, and the push from employees to work differently and go green.
Maximizing profitability and productivity across a flexibility talent spectrum. Designing flexible and reduced hours to meet employer/practice demands and individual needs. Tailoring solutions to different stages of employee development. Includes focus on Generation Y who want to work differently, to employees with children and elderly or sick relatives, to employees with other competing commitments outside of work, and to Baby Boomers phasing into retirement.
Individual sessions to assess work/life problem areas and solutions. Work with management, partners, associates, administrators and/or committees.
Annual check-up on work/life issues. Includes advising employers on where they stand relative to competitors. How to remain competitive or be an industry leader. Educate on norms, industry standards and trends and establish benchmarks in the legal profession.
Creating an infrastructure for employees to telecommute. Meeting the needs of employers and clients by creating parameters and accountability while providing more flexibility to employees.
Ongoing advisor to diversity committees and task forces on work/life issues as they arise.
Training employees and managers on maximizing productivity and satisfaction. Includes analysis of personal/environmental factors and work/life goals.
Training employees on the transition to and from parental leave. Includes decisions about how much time to take, whether to work flexible and reduced hours, childcare, what role to play while on leave, how to prepare for leave, how to stay current and connected while on leave, and how to transition back effectively.
The Nitty-Gritty of How to Make Flexible & Reduced Hours Work (for Lawyers/Employees & Partners/Supervisors). Includes training for both supervisory managers/partners and lawyers/employees.
Time management skills. Training to enable employees to gain efficiencies, improve productivity and effectively delineate lines between work and home.
Advising law schools on developing programs for lawyers in transition and re-entry lawyers. Focus on programming to get lawyers back to work and advising individuals on getting back to work.

Women - (click to open)

THE LAW & REORDER® CONSULTING PRACTICE INCLUDES THESE SPEAKING SERVICES, AMONG OTHERS:

Workplace Restructure - (click to open)

Talent Management - (click to open)

Work/Life Balance - (click to open)

Women - (click to open)