Flex-Time Lawyers

CONSULTING SERVICES

As Founder and President of Flex-Time Lawyers LLC, Deborah Epstein Henry provides consulting services focusing on work/life balance and attorney retention and promotion, with a particular emphasis on women lawyers. Her expertise is in making flexible and reduced schedules and work/life balance a win-win situation for lawyers, their employers, and clients. She also has an expertise in business development, women's initiatives, re-entry and other issues related to the retention and promotion of women.

Debbie has experience counseling law firms, corporations and thousands of individual lawyers; speaking nationally in public forums; and, speaking at nearly 200 programs on work/life and women's issues. For more information about Debbie's experience and background, please click here. In her consulting practice, Debbie provides services including:

drafting and analyzing flexible, reduced-hour and re-entry policies and providing recommendations to decision makers;
conducting individual sessions with management, partners, associates, administrators and/or committees to assess gender or work/life problem areas and solutions;
developing strategic plans to create and further women's initiatives;
advising diversity and other committees and task forces on work/life and women's issues;
working on an ongoing basis with internal firm committees as work/life and women's issues arise;
serving as a resource and providing articles, reports, presentation materials and other instructional writings;
providing an annual check-up on work/life and women's issues, including advising firms on where they stand relative to their competitors, how to remain competitive, and on norms and trends in the field; and,
facilitating and leading seminars to provide strategies for improving retention, promotion and overall status and satisfaction of lawyers in their places of employment.

Debbie frequently gives presentations, workshops and seminars on how to design a woman-friendly employer, work/life balance, flexible and reduced schedules, re-entry, women's initiatives, business development, and women's issues generally and frequently serves as a facilitator to guide these discussions at law firms, corporations and retreats. Following are sample topics of her more popular programs:

Designing a Woman-Friendly Law Firm: Findings from the 2007 Best Law Firms for Women national survey and elements of a woman-friendly employer developed in The Cheat Sheet (target audience - all lawyers at the firm, partners at the firm, firm management, women partners or all women lawyers at the firm);
Facing the FACTS: Introducing Work/Life Choices for All Firm Lawyers within the Billable Hour (target audience - all lawyers at the firm, partners at the firm, firm management);
The Economic Case for Flex-Time and Part-Time Lawyering: How to Create a Win-Win Arrangement for Law Firms, Clients and Lawyers (target audience - all lawyers at the firm, partners at the firm or firm management);
The Nitty-Gritty of How to Make Flex-Time Work (typically two separate training sessions - one for the supervising partners and one for the flex-time attorneys);
The Ten Components of a Mutually Beneficial Flex-Time Arrangement (target audience - all lawyers at the firm, supervising partners or flex-time attorneys);
Time Management & Work/Life Balance in a 24/7 World (target audience - all associates);
Business Development Beyond Rubber Chicken Dinners in a 24/7 World (target audience - all women lawyers or all associates);
Comeback Lawyers: Re-Entry into the Legal Profession & Why it is Important (target audience – all women lawyers or firm committees);
Improving Life for Women at the Firm (target audience – women associates or all women lawyers);
Starting a Women's Initiative (target audience – all women lawyers); and,
Secrets to Her Success (target audience - all women lawyers).

To learn more about Debbie's consulting practice, e-mail her at dehenry@flextimelawyers.com or call her at 610.658.0836