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Coming soon! Founder Deborah Epstein Henry will release her first book entitled, LAW & REORDER: Legal Industry Solutions for Restructure, Retention, Promotion & Work/Life Balance (American Bar Association, 2010). Stay tuned for more details . . .
Flex-Time Lawyers LLC® is a ten-year old national consulting firm advising law firms, corporations, lawyers and law students on work/life balance, the retention and promotion of women and new models of legal practice. Flex-Time Lawyers LLC functions in the following principal capacities:
  • Providing consulting services on flexible and reduced schedules, work/life balance, new models of legal practice, business development, women's initiatives, re-entry and women's issues generally.
  • Providing speaking at national conferences, events, law schools, corporations, law firms and retreats.
  • Hosting a membership organization with chapters in New York and Philadelphia, offering networking opportunities, support, career guidance, education and information sharing to effect change.
  • Serving as an ongoing resource, publishing articles and fielding inquiries from the press, lawyers and employers about work/life balance, women's issues and new models of legal practice.
  • Providing recruiting services.
The mission of Flex-Time Lawyers LLC is to empower lawyers on work/life balance and women's issues by providing support, career guidance, education and networking opportunities. The mission is also to improve work/life balance, the retention and promotion of women and new models of legal practice by providing a forum for lawyers and legal employers to share information to effect change and by providing consulting services to employers to improve their training, policies, practices and vision.

Flex-Time Lawyers LLC maintains a mailing list of thousands of lawyers and legal employer representatives and has held over 100 programs through its chapters in New York and Philadelphia. Chapter events are held four times a year in each City. Guest speakers are often hosted to discuss topics relating to work/life balance, the retention and promotion of women attorneys and new models of legal practice.

Flex-Time Lawyers LLC has been covered extensively in the national and legal press, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, National Public Radio, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, National Law Journal, New York Law Journal, and numerous others.

Flex-Time Lawyers LLC has spearheaded and partnered in many important initiatives related to its mission. In September 2006, Flex-Time Lawyers LLC and the New York City Bar, Committee on Women in the Profession released "The Cheat Sheet," the ultimate guide to selecting, creating and ensuring a woman-friendly employer. Flex-Time Lawyers LLC has also teamed up with Working Mother magazine to conduct a national law firm survey on work/life and women's issues. This Best Law Firms for Women initiative releases a list of best law firms and also reports it findings, statistics and trends in the industry. In 2007, Flex-Time Lawyers LLC released a new work/life methodology called FACTS that has received national recognition through The New York Times. Additionally, in January 2009, Flex-Time Lawyers LLC launched an initiative with three others called Balanomics™ making the economic link between work/life balance and employer profitability and bring work/life balance into the diversity discussion.
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